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• Add extra serial ports to your Amiga with
the GG2 card from Software Results.
Find the right genlock for
your video needs. We test
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• MultiLayer is an incredibly powerful image
composition tool from Premier Vision.
• Now Village Tronic have resumed
production of the Picasso II graphics card,
we decided to
take a look at it.
| • Back to school with 1
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and German lessons.
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Adult Sensatio n £ 1 6.
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AminetS £14,
Am inet collection (Box set 4 CD's] £29.
Amos Users CD £16
Assassins CD £16,
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CD-PD 3 £8
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GIFs Galore £14
Gold Fish I £24
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MultiMedia Too I Kit £ 1 6
NetworkCD £12
Professional Fonts £16,
Sheer Delight £16,
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Space & Astronomy £16,
Towns of Tunes £16
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Weird Science Fonts £6
Weird Science Antnris £16,
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Who's Who
Editorial [|ffPiopperWelcome
e essential magazine For Am ga enthusiasts
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Consultant Editor: Nick Veitch
Art Editor: Nick Aspell
Production Editor: Anna Grenstam
Technical Writer: Graeme Sandiford
Contributors:
Richard Baguley, Toby Simpson, Jason Holbcrn,
Larry Hickmott, Gary Whiteley, Darren Irvine, John
Kennedy, John =arker, Paul Overaa.
Photography: Pete Canning
Group Art Director: Matthew Williams
You can also contact us, or browse through a selection of Amiga
artic-es, tutorials etc. on the brand new FutureNet It's complete!/ free,
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Issue SO
The Amiga is 10 years old this month. By the time you read this we
should know whether or not the Amiga will survive for another decade.
Ten years ago the first ever
Amiga was demonstrated at the
June 1985 CES in Chicago and
to celebrate we asked Richard
Baguley to bring you the
comprehensive report of the last 1 years
in the life of the Amiga - turn to page 16.
The results of our reader survey in issue 47
made interesting reading. Your ages range
from 15 to over 50 - half of you are in your
thirties. Only 3 per cent of our readers are
female, but don't forget that this survey won't
pick up on Amigas that are used by families, so
there are probably a lot more women and
children using Amigas out there -
especially as you also told us that
most of you use your Amigas for
leisure, rather than work.
The vast majority of you are in
full-time employment. Three
quarters of you own A 1200s, the
other quarter mostly have A500s, or
A500+s. You have a very wide range
of hobbies, including breeding
budgerigars, home brewing, sailing
and flying. The price of a product is
very important to you when
choosing what to buy next for your Amiga
set-up and over 69 per cent of you regularly
buy products through mail order from
advertisers in Amiga Shopper. Turn to Talking
Shop, starting on page 102, for some of the
other comments and suggestions that you
made when filling in your surveys.
Our Supertests are proving extremely
popular and this month we've tried and
tested 12 genlocks for you. Steve McGill
discovers which are the best buys and advises
you what you should look out for to suit your
particular needs.
Plus, we have pages and pages of reviews
and in-depth tutorials to help you get the most
from your Amiga.
Sadly, this month is the last time that
Graeme Sandiford will be working on Amiga
Shopper. He is to move over to our sister
magazine Amiga Format to be their technical
expert. Ik- has done sterling work lor Amiga
Shopper over the past 15 months and I'm sure
you would all like to join the rest of the Amiga
Shopper team in thanking him for his excellent
efforts and wishing him well in his new post.
(We'll still be getting him to do
freelance work in his spare time,
I'm sure, so he won't disappear
from the mag entirely).
We have a new Technical Writer
and Coverdisk Editor joining us for
the next issue. He is David Taylor
from Amiga User International. He's
done great things with their disks
and he promises he will be doing
the same for us. Welcome, David ! ■
June 1995
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Sue Grant, Editor.
Turn the page for the
contents of issue 50
ShopperContents
June 1995
Issue 50
The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts
ShopperFeatures
10 years of the Amiga _16
"Happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you..."
Yes. it's really 1 years since the very first
Amiga entered the stage. Richard Baguley
takes us through the ups and downs.
Competition
Supertest
_23
24
In this month's Supertest, Steve McGill helps
you choose the right genlock for your particular
needs by explaining the most important features
to look out for and testing some of the best
ones around.
Amiga Answers
60
More expert advice from our panel of die-hard
Amiga professionals. If you have a problem with
your Amiga, these are the pages to turn to.
84
Public Domain
Jason Holborn finds that PD libraries can be
the answer when you want to update your
Workbench utilities.
ShopperReviews
GG2
34
John Kennedy has found a way of
bridging the hardware gap and adding
serial ports to his Amiga for a mere
£100. How? Read his review on page 34.
1 0+ The Amiga is 10 years old and we are
%3 celebrating the birthday-boy on page 16,
Ahugashopper
ShopperReviews
The Light Works _37
A wonderful 3D CD-ROM that took
Graeme Sandiford by storm. Find
out why by turning to our regular page
on what's new and great in the CD-ROM market.
37
3D Arena __
Another CD-ROM that I
Sandiford awarded a Star buy award.
The man must be impressed!
DPaint V
40
Check out what Graeme Sandiford thought
of the latest version of this truly classic package,
Picasso II 42
The Picasso II graphics card has been well-
regarded for a long time. Gary Whiteley
decided to put it through its paces.
10 Out Of 10
Graeme Sandiford looks at two award-
winning educational programs on how to
improve your German and driving skills.
44
46
MultiLayer
Graeme Sandiford reviews this incredibly
powerful image composition tool from those
clever blokes at Premier Vision. Also, check out
AS48 for Graeme's interview with them.
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ShopperTutoria
72
Photogenics
In the third instalment of Graeme
Sandiford's series of Photogenics tutorials, he
teaches you how to use filter effects.
74
Assembler
After having taught you all the Assembler-
basics, programming Guru Toby Simpson is
now getting slightly more serious in his
applications (if that's at all possible).
DICE
78
We had a special version of DICE 3.0 on our
Coverdisk for the March 1 995 issue. Toby
Simpson now gives you a chance to learn how
to make the most of this exciting language.
Comms
80
Darren Irvine took over from Dave Winder last
issue and did it so well he is back with more
from the land of "Comms 'n' stuff". This month:
can you access the Internet with mere E-mail?
ShopperRegulars
Coverdisk instructions 6
Steve Kennedy and Graeme Sandiford
make sure that you don't have any problems
installing and using your Personal Paint and
ShopperChoice Coverdisks.
News 12
This is the place to find out what's new, hot and
steaming in the Amiga market at present.
Remember, you saw it here first!
Letters
102
You could win £25 for sounding off, or come
up with an hilariously funny caption in our regular
competition. Go on, surprise us!
Next month
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Another packed issue of Amiga Shopper will be
hitting the streets on Tuesday, 30th May.
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Go/denGafe2 is a "marvel of the industrial
age" according to John Kennedy.
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ShopperContents
Supertest
The Amiga Shopper Supertest is renowned for being the
most comprehensive and informative head-to-head review
in the business. Every month we take a good, long look at
products or programs we know are of immediate interest
to our readers. If you need to know which particular
programming language suits your needs (in AS47); which
modem is the best value for money (in AS48); which
CD-ROM drive to get (in AS49), then turn to the Amiga
Shopper Supertest. This month Steve McGill casts
his critical eye on genlocks and talks about what they
can do for you.
to/a L 1500 is an impressive genlock and you'll find
many more in our Supertest on page 24.
The Amitek Fusion doesn't look as professional as
the L1500, but on test they performed similarly.
ShopperDisks - turn to page 6 for full instructions
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On Coverdisk 1 this month, we
have a special version of
Personal Paint. PP was released
only a couple of years ago and
has since been developed into
one of the most useful and
powerful paint packages on the
market. One of its greatest
advantages is its amazing speed
of operation. Try it out and find
out for yourself I On the
ShopperChoice disk, we have
three useful, full programs -
Bartender, Filer 3.23 and
Rubbish Dump, one Imagine
object and the usual tutorial files.
ShopperCoverdisk 1
Instructions
John Parker
Paint packages have been
around on the Amiga since
the very early days when
HAM's 4,096 colours were a
revolution. Personal Paint,
however, was released only a couple of
years ago and has been developed ever
since into one of the most useful and
powerful packages of the lot.
The program shares a great deal of the
most common paint package control and
drawing features, but has several rather
unique talents of its own. Image processing,
support for the display database (which means
it works on most EGS displays) and a nifty
storyboard display for animations are three
which spring to mind. Best of all has to be
Cloanto's support for this frequently-updated
package and Personal Paint's relentless quest
for improvement.
Finally, one of Persona] Paint's biggest
advantages is its fantastic speed of operation.
Try filling a screen with a colour-gradient in
this wonderful program, then attempt the
same job using DPaint. When image
processing and other time-consuming jobs
are attempted. Personal Paint jumps to it
Complete control
Disk
Hailed as a rising star in the world of Amiga art, Cloanto's Personal
Paint 6. 1 is a powerful performer. John Parker guides you through
our exclusive working version.
The Storyboard facility
makes It a great deal
easier to plan and edit
animations, especially
longer ones.
with enthusiasm and a turn of speed that can
make a DPaint user green with envy.
How much of it works?
The version on this month's disk is a fully-
working demo with all painting and processing
features implemented.
The main restrictions are that any images
1. Each of the standard pen drawing shapes can be altered in size
by clicking on it with the right mouse-button, then dragging the pen
out to the required size.
2. Click on the number 1 with your right mouse-button and a pop-up
panel will appear enabling you to choose from the last nine brushes
you have used.
3. Airbrush controls are summoned with the right mouse-button
again and offer complete control over the flow and shape of the
airbrush paint stream.
4. This Icon, when selected, turns on the currently selected filter or
image processing effect. Click with the right mouse-button to
choose an effect from the list of over 50.
5. Multiple undo/redo ensures that no matter what mistake you
made or how long ago it was made, you needn't worry about starting
over. Left button forces an undo, right button forces a redo.
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saved, processed, or printed have the word
"demo" splashed across them as they are sent
to disk or the printer. In addition, the
datatypes have been left out, though there's a
24-bit GIF library so that this image format
can be loaded and edited.
Getting started
To install Personal Paint on hard drive, put
the Coverdisk in your floppy drive, open a
Shell and type:
M&KEDIR DRIVE :PPAINT
COPY DF0:#? TO DRIVE : PPMIW ALL
where DRIVE: is the name of your hard drive
(e.g. DH0:orWork:).
There's no real need to copy the
personal.font to your fonts directory but if you
want to make use of the program's 24-bit GIF
support you'll have to copy the library found in
the DF0:libs using the command:
COPY DF0:LIBS/t? TO LIBS:
Once installed, just double click on the PPaint
icon and off we go. Users with floppy drive
systems should boot with Workbench first,
then put the Personal Paint disk in DF1
(replace your Workbench disk if you only have
one drive) and load through the icon as usual.
Everything in the package will work as
normal for floppy users except the virtual
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Instructions
Shop per Coverdisk 1
Virtual memory
Those of us who use machines with
less memory will know only too well
the frustration of seeing that "not
enough memory lor operation"
message. For hard drive users,
though, Personal Paint otters a
solution which few other Amiga
packages can match.
Virtual memory is a trick whereby
the Amiga is told to use an area on
hard drive as "virtual" RAM. Instead of
writing to an area held in a memory
chip's volatile RAM, the data is written
to hard drive once conventional
memory runs out. This can be a lot
slower than having the extra memory
chips for the job, but it does at least
ensure that your project won't come
to a grinding halt and makes possible
painting jobs which wouldn't normally
fit in 1Mb or 2Mb of RAM.
Users can alter the defaults for
virtual memory using the option from
the Settings menu. This offers the
choice to turn the feature off and on,
where on hard drive the temporary
memory files will be stored (make
sure it's a drive with some space on
it!), and what the minimum size of
free RAM should be. Once
conventional memory drops below
this amount, virtual memory kicks in.
This is also where the user can
set the multiple undo/redo limits in
terms of the number the program
will remember and how much
memory it will use to do so. If you find
that you don't need more than three
or four levels of undo (most of us
don't), then you can save a small
amount of precious RAM by lowering
the values found here.
Virtual memory is an economical and
very welcome solution to the problem
of too little RAM.
memory feature, which requires a hard drive
to work.
Using the package
When you first run Personal Paint you will
notice that it looks virtually identical to D Paint
except that the default tool bar is on the left
hand side. Many of the icons and tools found
here will be familiar to anyone who has used
Dan Silva's program, but there are plenty of
features you won't have seen before.
The BEzier curve tool (second down on the
left) gives users a more powerful drawing aid
than the usual arc tool. To use it, click on the
icon with the left mouse -button, then click in
the drawing area to set start and end points for
the curve. This will produce a line with two
intermediary control points plus those at either
end, then put you into edit mode.
Changing the appearance of the curve is a
simple matter of clicking on one of the four
control points and dragging it around. The
curve will reflect your mouse movements in
real time and when satisfied you just click the
right mouse-button to stamp the curve in place.
The airbrush, though a fairly standard tool,
also has a neat feature in ils jet adjustment.
Click with the right mouse-button on the
airbrush tool (five down on the left) to bring
up the control panel and note that there's no
value in the Jet Adjust box. You can type a
fairly high number in here to force the
airbrush to use more "ink" dots when it sprays
and the results can be useful.
For example, as the number of jets increases
to 64 or so, it's quite easy to make the air-
brushed lines look as though they've been
drawn in chalk. This control over paint flow
also makes it easier to "feather" an area which
has been airbrushed by gradually decreasing
the flow as you work your way outwards.
Brush handling also has one or two nice
touches that you won't find in some other
packages. For example, when resizing a brush,
the stretch method can be tricky to use
because it's easy to lose the brush's aspect
ratio. By selecting stretch from the Brush...
Resize option and holding down the Shift key,
users can "constrain" the brush to ensure that
it keeps its original proportions as it is resized.
There's also a very quick and easy way to
stretch a brush in small steps by cutting the
brush out and using the '+' and '-' keys to
gradually resize the brush to exactly the correct
fit. This works with the keys above the main
alphanumeric keyboard rather than with the
keypad, as A600 owners will be glad to know.
Other brush options which work well are
the Chop and Outline features. Outline, for
example, gives ihe user a simple way to add'a
Many of the built-in
effects In Personal Paint
can be edited to make
subtle changes in the way
they work.
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June 1995
shadowed or 3D effect outline to a brush and
though the result varies with the shape of
brush used, it beats adding an outline or
creating a shadow in the usual way.
Outlines are also a good way to ensure that
brushes don't disappear into the background
when stamped down on to an image. Probably
the most high-profile option in Personal Paint,
though, is the range of image processing
effects on offer.
Six icons down on the right-hand side of
the tool bar you will see a gradient box icon
which represents the program's image
processing features. Clicking on this with the
left button will cause the program to apply the
currently selected effect to everything you do
thereafter until turned off, but clicking with
the right button brings up a list of the 50+
filters and other trickery.
There are loo many effects to list here, but
it has to be said that they are such an
important part of the package that Cloanto
have restricted their use. It is possible to apply
a filter to the entire image by choosing the
Image Processing option from the Project
menu, but this always results in the finished
image having the word "DEMO" repeated
across it. Using the tool bar route, small areas
of screen can often be selectively processed
without this restriction coming into effect.
Try drawing any kind of colourful pattern
in an area no bigger than about a quarter of
the screen, then choose one of the effects and
drag a box around the drawing with the left
mouse-button. You will sec the effect being
applied line by line and when the process is
complete you should have a good example of
how the program does its job.
Everything from dithering to tint and
transparency can be applied through these
effects, though the latest addition is probably
the most popular at the moment. Stereograms,
those "magic eye" patterns which you either
pick up quickly or never see more than a
random collection of dots, can be created
using one of the many SIPS or SIRDS effects.
To create a small stereogram, try drawing a
small image or loading a brush, then copy it to
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Instructions
John Parker
the spare page (or "environment", as Cloanto
calls it). Now click the image processing icon
with the right mouse -button, choose a
stereogram- effect and drag a box around your
image with the left mouse-button.
I'll leave it to you to judge how well the
stereograms work, since I've never seen
anything in them, apart from the sort of sight
you gel when bellowing "ralph" at the inside of
a toilet bowl on a Friday night. Those who can
actually sec these images assure me that they
work, so there should be enough choice in
Personal Paint's numerous effects thai you'll
find one which suits your picture.
With the program's superb printing-routines
and full 24-bit printer support, owners of the
more expensive colour printers such as Star's
SJ-144 or the Fargo Frimera can produce their
own paper-based stereograms. Bear in mind
the restriction I mentioned earlier, though,
because you will have to be content with
"DEMO" appearing across the finished print.
When the Print option is selected, a print
requester will offer the user the chance to edit
settings for standard PRT printers (dot matrix,
bubblejets and so on) or the PostScript printer.
You don't have to have an expensive printer to
make use of this function as the program will
print the image to a disk file so that it can be
output when you have access to the equipment.
Many of the other effects can be edited to
suit the user's requirements. The effects are
split into groups depending on the type of
process they employ and any, or all, of the
convolutions (blur and so on), randomising
effects and popularity effects (water colour)
can be edited to alter the effect itself.
When you choose the Edit gadget from the
effects requester, your effect is represented by a
5x5 matrix of boxes (the "kernel"), each
containing either a zero or some other value.
The type of effect is displayed in a cycle gadget
above the matrix and the bias applied to the
effect is shown on the right.
It would take a complete article to explain
how the kernel and bias functions work
together, but one good example to experiment
on is the detect edges filter. This effect has the
number 4 in the middle and is surrounded by
-1 on every side, these figures determining how
sharp an edge change the effect will pick up on.
By altering the figures so that there is less
of a difference between the central and outer
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controls, particularly for PostScript output, are the
best of any Amiga paint package.
fewer edges. Small changes can lead to huge
differences in the effect, though, so play
around and find a value that you like.
It's at this point you will want to use the
undo feature. Personal Paint is well equipped
in that department because it utilises an
excellent multiple undo/redo tool which can be
used to go back over as many steps as you like.
To carry out an undo operation, click on
the u-turn arrow (bottom right of the tool bar)
and the last operation will be taken back.
Click again and the action before that will be
taken back and so on. Redo operations are a
simple matter of clicking the same icon with
the right mouse-button.
A default setting of up to 20 undos and
redos leaves room for going back over a few
mistakes, but if you ever need more (some of us
make a lot of mistakes!), you can change the
value using the Memory Management option
from the Settings menu (see box on page 7).
Animation has always been D Paint's strong
suit and though Personal Paint does not have
an equivalent of the light table and the move
requester, it does have an excellent storyboard
feature. Storyboarding is the process of
creating .small representations of each frame in
the animation and pasting them to a board so
that animators can see how the action is
moving along and plan changes.
Using the Personal Paint storyboard, users
can view every frame as a thumbnail image
and quickly scroll through the complete anim
using the scroll bars on the right. Above the
frames themselves are a number of icons
which can be used to edit the animation and
re-arrange the frames. The user can elect to
add frames, set the starting point, cut and
swap frames around, and there's the usual
undo feature represented by the u-turning
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are supported, as are the
RTG cards which use
display database, such as
Picasso. Note the RTG
cycle gadget in the lower
right of the requester.
arrow. Sloryboard isn't quite as powerful as a
fully-fledged animation workshop package, but
it can help when longer animations need a few
tweaks here and there.
When an animation is saved using the
option from the Animation menu, you'll see
that there arc six anim formats available
through a cycle gadget. These arc the various
Ammo, Anim-7 and Anim- 8 foitnats, the
former of which has slower playback but takes
up less space on disk. Anim-7 and Anim-8 are
more recent standards which make best use of
speed - especially useful of you're planning any
256-colour or even Ham-8 animations - but
they take up more space on disk and won't be
recognised by older anim player utilities.
Another handy addition to the Animation
menu is the choice to set a range of frames
which will be played when the user selects to
view the anim. This is found as a sub-item
under the Play option and enables the user to
play back only thai part of the anim he or she
is working on at the time. If you're having
problems with the last 50 frames of a
sequence, playing only these frames back
whenever you press the '4' key speeds up the
editing process no end.
Other parts of the program you might want
are the various user- definable settings. These
are all together on their own menu and enable
the user to change everything from virtual
memory settings to the appearance of the file
requester. Colour reduction and remapping -
used whenever the program loads an image
with too many colours for the current display -
are important settings because they determine
how many images appear when loaded.
Changing from simple remapping to
pattern or Floyd-Steinberg dithering can make
a big difference if you load a 24-bit file into a
256-colour screen display. The one disadvantage
is that more advanced dithering will add to
loading and remapping times, a small price to
pay for smoother-looking images.
Settings can also be used to determine
whether icons are saved with images and
brushes, whether you want an audio cue when
you make an error, and what encryption key, if
any, is used to protect images from prying
eyes. You can choose any alphanumeric key for
encryption, so if there are images you don't
want others to see, you can add some security.
Personal Paint is a very nifty little mover
and though this demo version has restrictions,
it works in almost all departments and shows
how efficiently Cloanto's package really is. You
might not want to swap from an existing
package such as DPaint or Brilliance, but
Personal Paint is a powerful program with
several features all of its own and it won't cost
you an arm and a leg. I
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Shake and stir with Bartender; keep your life in order with Filer 3.23
and check out our Imagine object. Graeme Sandiford shows you
where to look for a file and how to use it to its full extent.
Filer 3.23
Workbench 2+- and 1Mb of RAM required
Filer is, rather unsurprisingly, a file-managing
program. It can be used to better organise
your hard disk and even perform a variety of
everyday tasks.
It's a shareware program, so please
remember to register it if you find yourself
using it regularly. Doing so will get rid of
that very irritating message that pops up from
time to time.
The archive contains an AmigaGuide
document that explains how to install and use
the program. Among some of the program's
features is the ability to display and edit text-
files, an ARexx port and de-archiving files.
You can also extend Filer's capabilities by
starling external programs - have a look at the
document to End out more.
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Like most people of my age, I'm a bit of a
Star Wars fan. The more dedicated Star Wars
followers will realise that the Imagine object
on this months disk is based on a fighter from
the film - all hough I don't recall seeing it in the
film, it was in the sourcebook.
LightWave-users may also notice the
resemblance between this ship and the
spacefighter supplied with LightWave.
The object comes complete with texture-
maps (in the folder called T-17bitmaps) which
must be placed in your Imagine directory.
Happy rendering!
Dodgy disk?
If your disk absolutely refuses to work and
you are certain it is faulty, please return it,
along with an SAE, to;
Amiga Shopper Coverdisk
(Insert the name of the disk),
Discopy Labs Ltd., PO Box 21 ,
Daventry, NN11 5BU.
10
I June 1995
I Issue 50
Graeme Sandiford
Instructions
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Bartender
Workbench 2+ required
I've never been ashamed to admit it, well not
very, but my first 16-bit computer was an Atari
ST. As you might expect, there are few things
that I miss about it; in fact there is only one -
an excellent cocktail database that I had. So
you can imagine my glee when 1 discovered
Bartender, which is also a cocktail database.
The program is very easy to use, the top-
right portion of the screen contains the
ingredients needed to make the cocktail; the
left side has a list of available cocktails; and the
bottom half has the instructions. You can also
search tor cocktails by using the text-string
gadget. The only grumble I have about this
program is that it doesn't contain the B52,
which is a mixture of Baileys, Kahlua...
Fancy a Singapore Sling, Tom Collins, Tequila
Sunrise, San Fransisco, or perhaps even an
Orgasm? Shake and stir with Bartender.
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Workbench 2+ required
This is a rather amusing and useful WBhack.
Because Workbench's trashcan is a little on the
pathetic side, Rubbish Dump's Author, Lee
Kindness, decided to make a replacement.
With Rubbish Dump, each device doesn't
need its own trashcan; this means any file
from any directory can be dragged over to its
icon. Be warned, though, the file will be
deleted immediately.
The fun part is that a sample of your
choosing is played when an item is deleted. In
fact, the program can execute any ARexx script
on deletion of a file. The archive comes
complete with an installation script,
documentation and several icons for you to use.
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is getting a bit more serious In his applications. You
can find the listings on Coverdisk 2.
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tutorial files
This month we have no picture-files for the
Photogenics tutorial. Since it's not a sequential
tutorial, there is no need for step-by-step
images - check it out all the same, though!
However, you will find the files that
accompany this month's DICE and Assembler
tutorials. In the DICE tutorial, Toby Simpson
continues the Finder project and shows you
how to use DICE's VMake tool effectively.
In part 9 of his Assembler tutorial, Toby
discusses the advantages and disadvantages of
programming in Assembler, rather than in C.
He also takes you on to the next level of
difficulty as you start creating useful programs.
June 1995
First of all.
Before using either of this month's Coverdisks,
please be sure to back them up - just in case.
Simply follow the easy instructions below If you
are not sure how to do this.
DBoot up from your Workbench disk or
partition, double-click on your Shell
icon - to be found in your system drawer.
Workbench Screen
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following line and then press return.
Diskcopy from DFO: to DFO:
If you have two drives, place the Coverdisk in
DFO: and a blank in DFIi, then type in the next
line instead.
Diskcopy from DFO: to DF1:
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remember that the Coverdisk is the
source disk and tbe blank is the destination.
□ If you used the two-drive method,
remember to rename the copy by clicking
on its icon and pressing right-Amiga </>.
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the disk from Workbench by dragging the
Coverdisk icon over the destination disk's one.
11
ShopperNews
June 1995
Issue 50
In Amiga Shopper's news pages this month: Commodore update; is Cinema 4D a
threat to LightWave?; LightWave user group; increase your A4000 040's power.
A new Amiga...
Well, sort of new. The
DraCo (pronounced
dra-ko) is not a
Commodore-endorsed machine. It's
actually a new 6 8060 -based tower
system that is Amiga-compatible. At
the moment this new machine is
being marketed as an affordable
video and graphics workstation.
The DraCo comes with the Amiga's
Operating System as standard and, as a
result, is compatible with most Amiga
software. However it is also compatible
with several Amiga peripherals,
including the Retina
ZIII graphics card, the
VLab Motion video
board and the Toccata
audio board.
Right, here are all
the hardware details for
all you techies. The DraCo will come
supplied with five Zorro II slots, a
minimum of 4Mb (expandable to a
maximum of 1 28Mb using industry-
standard SIMMs), a NCR 53C720
SCSI2 controller (as used by the Warp
Engine) and a triple-speed CD-ROM
drive. For graphics output, the DraCo
will rely on the Retina card it's supplied
with and a VLab Motion-equipped model
will also be available.
Although pricing has not been set just
yet, the DraCo will probably cost from
about £2,500 upward,
depending on the
configuration. The
machine sounds very
promising and you
can be sure we'll
give you the low-down
once it goes into full-scale production.
First Look
This is the part of the magazine where we give you a
first, exclusive peek at what is up and coming.
One of the pieces of
software that I saw in
Cologne, during the
Computer '94 show, that really
impressed tne was Cinema 4D. At
the time, there were no set plans
to translate it into English -
however, this is no longer the case
since HiSoft will soon be
distributing this excellent 3D
program in the UK.
We've got hold of an almost
translated version and we are already
putting it through its paces, so that
you can have a behind-the-scenes
look at this 3D package.
But, what's so special about
Cinema 4D? Basically, the same
things as LightWave - an easy-to-use
Interface and some powerful
features. Cinema 4D has an
Intuition -based interface that can be
opened up in practically any screen,
including Workbench or a graphics
card. It's possible to open several
windows at a time, so you can have
more than one project open - if you
have enough memory, of course.
Several toolbars are also available to
provide you with easy access to
Cinema 4D's features. Plus you can
choose from several viewing modes;
either horn above, the front, the side,
a 3D angle, or a combination of all of
them (a quad-view).
One of the program's most
unique features is its inverse-
kinematics system. This system,
presently only used by Real 3D2, can
be used to create realistic movements
that are properly articulated. This
includes animations that involve
humanoid figures, or even complex
machinery. Normally, when you
create a figure, such as a human,
moving the limbs in a natural
manner can be difficult since the
connection you can make between
objects is a hierarchy.
Inverse-kinematics enables you
to link objects at specific points.
Once an object is moved or rotated,
Titbits
One to
remember
Don't forget the Spotlight 1995
Atari & Amiga Show at the Novotel
in Hammersmith, London. The
show is on the 10th and 1 1th June,
the doors open at 10am and the
tickets cost £5 each. For further
information, call * 0181 345 6000.
Free news
Registered users of Word worth can
get hold of the Wordworth
Newsletter completely free. The
latest issue (number 3) has been
mailed to every registered
Wordworth-user in the UK, If you
live abroad, then contact your local
Wordworth-distributor to get hold
of a copy, or phone Digita on
« 01 395 270273.
Radio days
The 38th Longleat Amateur
Radio Rally is to take place on
Sunday 25th June from 9.30am
to 5pm. Tickets cost £2.50 and if
you want to know more, call
» 01 17 940 2950.
Bodily functions
Environmentally-aware readers
will be interested to note that The
Body Shop have announced that
they are setting up their own area
on the Internet. The aim is to link
with data on social and
environmental issues and to tell
their stories to inspire people to
join their campaigns.
Get connected to The Body
Shop on:
http ://www. the. body- shop .com
any linked objects will also respond;
but instead of simply copying its
movements, they react in a similar
way to how you would expect them
to in the real world.
Another unique feature is being
able to edit an object's texture as if it
were an object itself. In the editor,
while in edit object texture or edit
object texture axis mode, textures
have spheres, tubes, or planes.
C4D's inverse-kinetics in action.
12
Issue 50
June 1995
ShopperNews
Price slash!
Golden Image Lid have announced
massive price cuts for the following
Amiga stuff: the Multiface-III card
for the A2000/A4000 is down from
£129 to £69.95; the Octagon SCSI2
controller for the A2000/A4000 is
slashed from £129 to £89.95; the
Tandem Dual CD/IDE controller for
the A2000/A4000 is down from £69
to £49.95; the Alfapower IDE
controller for the A5O0/A50O+ is cut
from £99 to £74.95 and the AT-Bus
IDE controller for the A2000/A4000
is down from £99 to £54.95.
Contact Golden Image on
o 0181 900 9291.
Commodore
update
Get in print with...
...two more new printers from Canon. First up is a portable
monochrome printer called the BJ-30 which has been specially
manufactured with the home-user in mind and also for companies
that need mobile printers.
The BJ-30 has a
resolution of 360x360dpi
which is enhanced to
720x360dpi by a built-in
smoothing function. It
also uses the BC-10
cartridge system with an
128 nozzle head giving a
print speed of 277
characters per second.
The BJ-30 costs around
£199 plus VAT.
For people who want
some colour in their lives,
the second Canon printer
is the BJC-70 bubbiejet,
which prints in full colour
at high speed. The BJC-70
is another portable ,
printer that prints at up to
a speedy 396 characters
per second. It has a
resolution of 360x360,
but if the smoothing
function is used, this is
again enhanced to
720x360. The BJC-70
costs £299 plus VAT.
For more info about
both these new printers,
contact Canon on --- 0181
773 3173.
which means that 1,000,000 pages
of information, graphics, sound
bites and interactive forms have
been downloaded.
The rate of growth is increasing
all the time - accesses are rising by
around 20 per cent a week. You can
Over 1,000,000 people accessed access FutureNet at:
Future Publishing's Internet pages, http://www.futurenet.co.uk/computing
FutureNet, in the last month - /amigashopper.html
Meet our sisters...
Once again, there's just too much
to mention in the next issue of
Amiga Format, our collectors,
celebratory 1 0th birthday of the
Amiga issue.
For a start, we will be having
an amazing, educational,
informative and fun special
feature on 10 years of Amiga
brilliance. This alone is worth
the cover price.
But, amazingly, we've
managed to get even more into the
issue. Perhaps that's due to our
special feature on archivers,
particularly the new lzx archive
software which will have serious
repercussions throughout the
Amiga industry.
Even so, there are still reviews
of The CyberStorm 060, Directory
Opus 5 and the hot news, direct
from the liquidators on the future
of Commodore International.
If you miss it, you may ever
count yourself accursed you were
not there. Be in your newsagents
on Thursday, 4th May.
N. Veitch, Editor, Amiga Format
The June issue of Amiga Power,
perhaps the mightiest yet, comes
in two forms. The first comes with
two disks packed with valuable
demos and games, as usual.
The second, however, sports an
incredible CD to play on your
CJj32 ( or complicated CD drive, or
whatever), stuffed not only with
great games and demos, but also
the Amiga Power (Sort Of)
Interactive Ail-Time Top 100 - a
MultiMedia™ version of the same
All-Time Top 100 that is covered in
graphic detail inside the magazine.
And there are loads of other great
Amiga game-related things inside,
and it's really good, and, well, be
sure to regale yourself with a copy.
J. Davies, Editor, Amiga Power
depending on which texture mode
you have applied to that object.
You can then interactively rotate,
position and scale the texture - this is
great for getting the position of a
texturemap just right. Textures can
be mirrored, automatically adjusted
to an object and positioned at an
orthogonal angle to the viewer. This
last one is useful if you have a texture
effect that has to be facing the
camera all the time.
When it comes to models, the
program can load a variety of
formats, such as Imagine, Sculpt and
DXF. These can be converted using a
special version of the German object
converter, Castillian, It also has some
extensive modelling tools of its own,
including splines, morphing. Boolean
operators and even a fractal
landscape generator.
Cinema 4D has an impressive
number of primitives, which you can
add to by using its object library
feature. It also has some special
objects - e.g. a figure that is complete
with inverse-kinematics arranged, a
Sun object, a text loader and an
emboss object which creates an
embossed relief from an IFF image.
In the animation department,
Cinema 4D uses a key-framing
system - just like LightWave. Objects'
movements can be recorded to key-
frames from which the computer
creates the frames necessary to fill in
between each key-frame.
The program has all the usual
modelling tools, rendering modes
and so on, plus a few more features.
As we can't fit it all in this small
space, look out for an in-depth review
soon. But if you just can't wait and
would like to get some more
information about this potential
LightWave-beater, call HiSoft on
U01525 718181.
Could Cinema 4Dbea LightWave-beater?
13
ShopperNews
June 1995
Issue 50
Final Data 2
We reviewed Final Data 1 in our database head-to-head in the last
issue of Amiga Shopper, but it didn't fare too well - we gave Twist 2
and DataStore higher marks.
However, Softwood Products Europe have now released Final Data 2
which includes many new features. You can now select non-adjacent
multiple rows or columns, which makes your work much more flexible.
Final Data 2 also has a new query requester, so you can define complex
search-criteria and then, when it is processed, the located rows are displayed
in a sub-list. The new memo column facility allows you to make separate notes
and display them when you wish. Plus, you can add up your calculations with
ease by using the new running calculation columns and you can also save, sort
and search definitions by name with the view facility.
Final Data 2 costs £39.95 and is available from Softwood on
"■01773 836781.
Your chance to shine
If you are a talented computer
programmer, then you'll be
pleased to know that Paradigm
Data Systems are a new publisher
entering the Amiga market.
Paradigm have been around for a
while, publishing specialised business
software and are now- launching a
new Amiga division.
They are planning to release
Amiga games and creative
applications and are looking for
submissions from Amiga
programmers. They especially
want to nurture new programming
talent and commission original
and innovative work from
experien c ed pro gram m e rs .
So if you are a home-based
programmer, a PD author, or a
professional Amiga-coder and you
want to get your work published,
then get in touch with Paradigm
one 01633 450292.
UK Lightwave
user group
Some of the country's top 3D graphics experts have got together to
create a discussion and support forum for users of their favourite
3D program - Lightwave. As the release of LightWave 4.0 on the SGI and
PC, as well as the Amiga, approaches, there's likely to be quite a
significant increase in the number of users of this fine product.
The founders are Simon Coombs - a freelance artist, Alan Marques of the
Magic Camera Company (responsible for the effects in Space Precinct and
Cyberjack) and Team 17s John Allardice - responsible for the gob-smacking
Tower Assault intro.
The group will also receive support directly from NewTek and also from
Foundation Images' Ron Thornton, who produces TV shows such as Babylon
5. The annual subscription will be £25, which gets you a regular newsletter,
discounts on LightWave-related products and a closed conference on CIX. For
more details, E-mail Simon at scoombs@cix.compulink.co.uk.
Get animated!
New from Weird Science is (be
Animations CD. Containing over
I gigabyte of animations in all
sorls of formats- including IFF,
FLI, MoviePlayer and Deluxe
Video - this double CD-set cos Is
only £ 1 9.95 and is ideal for
animators everywhere.
And you don 'I have to worry
aboul playing (be animations,
because [bey are all viewed
directly from an AmigaGuide
menu system. Tf you want to
know more aboul the Animations
CD, call Weird Science on n Oil 6
234 0682.
Expert help
Foe WaewMjHSi &.1
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Set more out of Wordworth 3. 1 and 3.1 SB
with Larry Hickmott's brand new book
'Wordworth Companion'.
If you want to get more from
Wordworth, then you should
try Larry Hickmott's new
'Wordworth Companion'.
Larry is Amiga Shopper's
DTP and word processing expert
and he also produces his own
DTP magazine called Em, so he
knows what he's talking about!
The Companion shows
you how to use Wordworth 3 . 1
and Wordworth 3.1SE, using
many different examples.
When you buy the
Companion you will also receive
a free disk which is packed with
clip art and fonts and a voucher
offering a 50 per cent discount
off Digita's products.
The Wordworth
Companion is published by
Future Publishing and costs only
£14,99. For more info, call Digita
on** 01 395 270 273.
Serious Sonnet power
The Sonnet SOMhz Doubter
4000 is a new product
that can seriously increase the
computing power of
A4000 040-owners.
This accelerator card replaces the
25Mh7. 68040 processor that comes
as standard with the A4000 040 and
effectively doubles the speed of the
machine. The board itself is actually
based on an 040 and so will retain
the same level of compatibility.
One of the main reasons for the
board being so much faster is a large
on-chip cache, which enables the
Sonnet Doubler to u r ork more or less
independently of the Amiga's
memory subsystem.
The board is apparently easy
to fit - just move the original
processor and insert the Doubler. As
yet, there are no set prices, but you
can find out more by calling Sonnet
on = 010714 261 2800.
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The Amiga - 10 years Richard Bag u ley
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I June 1995
Issue 50
Richard Bag u ley The Amiga - 10 years
ShopperFeature
appv Birthday
1 years of the Amiga J
Long-time Amiga fan, Richard Baguley looks back at 10 years of Amiga facts, figures, people and products...
Ten years ago something rather
significant happened. Well, it
was significant if you were into
computers. A group of like-
minded souls got together and
created a new computer system. Although
new computers were hardly unusual in
those days, this one certainly caused a stir.
It was revolutionary both in hardware and
software, with co-processors to take the
load off the CPU and a true multitasking
Operating System that knocked spots off
the competition. The name of this
revolutionary machine? The Amiga.
I remember walking past the window of a
computer shop in London in late 1986 and
seeing something that made my jaw drop. As a
keen photographer I'd seen examples of
computer graphics, but I'd never seen them
being produced in real-time by a computer.
What I was seeing was a near photo-realistic
animation which included reflections and
incredibly smooth animation. For somebody
who owned a BBC model B computer, this was
heady stuff indeed.
What I was seeing was, of course, the now
legendary "Boing" demo, where a stick figure
In the beginning...
...there was darkness, not to mention a number of
different types of computer. Way back in the early
Eighties the angels of the computer world were the
likes of the Vic 20, the BBC micro and Clive Sinclair's
incredibly successful ZX30, ZXEi and Spectrum.
Slow, clanky beasts with minuscule amounts
of memory and the sort of processing power that a
washing machine would laugh at they may have
been, but many of the demigods of the Amiga
scene began their virtual lives on these machines.
Little did they know what was to come...
The Amiga began with three wise men: R J
Mica I, Dave Morse and Jay Minor. Jay Minor had
worked for a long time at Atari, while Mical and
Morse had worked for Williams (the video game
and pinball manufacturers) and Tonka (the
manufacturers of, believe it or not, Tonka toys).
They got together because they had a vision
for a machine which would be at the cutting edge
of computing power, with not only the ability to
play games but also the power to do real
computing tasks. With previous machines you
could do some serious work, but as anybody who
tired to use a Spectrum as a word processor will
tell you, they were somewhat limited.
juggled three silver balls on a checkered
landscape. Like many other like-minded people
of the day, I was fascinated by this new
machine. Unfortunately, it was still rather
expensive and a poor student like me could
hardly afford the seven hundred odd quid that
it cost. Nevertheless, thanks to a combination
of price-cuts and scrimping and saving, I
eventually managed to buy myself an A500
with a massive 512K of memory. My life would
never be the same again...
The computer business is incredibly fast
moving, with new machines appearing and
disappearing within a matter of months. Given
this, it's incredible to think that it is now 10
years since the Amiga first appeared on the
scene. Let's take a year-by-year look at the good
times, the bad times and the people and
products that have made the Amiga one of the
most popular computers ever...
1985: Soup-cans and
singalongs
The Amiga 1000 is launched to an
unsuspecting world in New York. With its
256K of memory, single disk drive and stylish
So, they founded a company. Based in
California's Silicon valley, the team worked
hard to produce a prototype. In order to keep
the project secret, they pretended to be
designing joysticks, including one which was
based around a surfboard.
Whenever they had a problem, or part of the
Operating System crashed, they would go and sit
on this "joystick" and meditate. This gave rise to
the "Guru Meditations" which follow a serious
crash on versions of Workbench prior to 2.1. Or so
the legend goes...
Eventually the team had a prototype, but the
money was running out fast So, they Invited Jay's
old employers Atari to invest tn the company In
return for the rights to manufacture the machine.
However, news of the deal was leaked to
Commodore who were looking for a machine to
replace the ageing Commodore 64.
This machine had been an Incredible success
with over 13 million sold, but other companies
were working hard to develop the next generation
of 16-bit machines and Commodore could not be
left behind.
The rest, as they say, is histoiy...
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Issue 50
June 1995
ShopperFeature
The Amiga - 10 years Richard Bag u ley
Dont quote me on this, but,
A selection of the best quotes from Amiga
industry figures over the last 10 years:
"As we move into 1993 my main ambition is to dominate the field of multimedia,
through products like the CDTV..."
Kelly Sumner, Managing Director,
Commodore UK
12th October 1992
"Even Jonathan Ross fell for the charm of the CDTV in the beginning. That must
prove something."
Amiga Format Special
"I don't see CDi as a threat."
Kelly Sumner, Managing Director
Commodore UK
October 1992
"For the future of the Amiga we demand...
...a PAL version of the Video Toaster costing less than £1 ,000 and ready within
the first quarter of 1994...
...less jargon-.
...a CD drive for the A12D0 now. And one that can be used with a thru -port so
that it can be used with other peripherals...
...lower prices for the A4000, so that it can compete properly with PCs
and Macs."
Marcus Dyson
Amiga Format Annual 1994
"I agree that we had some very bizarre things with the A500, A500+ and ASOO. I
mean that was nonsense, a complete and utter screw up."
David Pleasance, Managing Director
Commodore UK
October 1993
The Commodore Dynamic Total Vision (CDTV) was
marketed as a multimedia player, not a computer.
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design, it was an instant hit. Although it was
expensive, it was obviously a machine designed
with creative people in mind, which was why
Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry were drafted
in to help with the launch.
1987: Adios Atari
With the launch of the ASOO in this year, things
really began to get going. This was launched as
a direct competitor to the most popular 16 -bit
machine of the day - the Atari ST. It was a
tough-fought battle, with aggressive marketing
on both sides and some furious price-cuts. It
would take a couple of years to finally win the
battle, but it was in this year that the Amiga
began to win over converts and become the de
facto standard 1 6 -bit computer.
At a developers' panel of a computer show,
Commodore UK MD Steve Franklin tells a
sceptical developer who has announced that he
won't be developing for the Amiga: "We will
make the Amiga the machine that everyone
wants to own. If you fail to write software [for
the Amiga], you do so at your own peril. I have
nothing more to say". Arrogant? Yes, but he
had grounds to be arrogant. A series of
stunning bundles over the next few years
(including games, such as Batman, Formula 1
and Grand Prix, and serious software, such as
DPaint and Word worth) ensured that the
Amiga constantly beat all comers, including its
main rival the Atari ST.
1990: Multimedia
madness
Commodore made a bold leap this year with
the launch of the CDTV. The Commodore
Dynamic Total Vision is marketed not as a
computer, but as a multimedia player.
Commodore even insist that the unit should
not be placed next to Amigas in shops. They
should be separated by a distance of at least six
feet. The CDTV is basically an A500 with a CD-
ROM drive attached and an infra-red remote
controller, but Commodore see it more as an
accessory to put next to your hi-fi.
Initial sales are somewhat disappointing,
even with a pretty widespread advertising
June 1995
campaign. The number of discs available
for it is pretty low and many are of a fairly
low quality. However, there are some
highlights, as the machine is bundled with the
Hutchinson Encyclopaedia and the CDTV
version of Lemmings. The whole concept
misses the mark somehow 7 - computer people
won't touch it because "it's not a computer"
and non-computer people won't touch it
because "it's a computer".
1991 : Sneaking from
the wreckage
A new Amiga was launched, but most people
didn't notice. Thanks to a variety of mix-ups
with distribution, many people bought what
they thought were A500s, only to find that
what they had actually bought was an A 5 00+.
This new machine included the new ECS
chipset, which had a variety of new graphics
modes and various other improvements.
Unfortunately, this also meant that a
number of games would not work on the new
machine, much to the annoyance of parents
who had bought new machines and games as
Christmas presents. According to the legend,
when one dealer rang up Commodore to ask
why he had been shipped these new machines
with no warning, Commodore press officer
Andrew Ball replied "what new machines?".
Under increasing pressure to actually sell a
few, Commodore also, er, "repositioned" the
CDTV as a proper computer with a hefty price
cut, as well as launching a pack that turns it
into a proper Amiga.
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then most popular 16-bit machine - the Atari ST.
Issue 50
Richard Bag u ley The Amiga - 10 years
ShopperFeature
remember the first time.
Amiga makers and shakers
talk about their first affair with
an Amiga:
"The reassuringly battered casing and grubby
Keyboard of my Amiga holds the fondest
memories of the past five years. My Amiga and I
have worked, lived and interacted with each other.
My Amiga plays Nitro and Kick Off 2, the finest
games ever written. My Amiga supports the Ztpstik,
the finest joystick ever built My Amiga is a sturdy
A500 with 1Mb expansion - a real Amiga, not a
laughable A500+, A600, A1200, or yuppy A4000
machine. My Amiga is a real Amiga. It's greasy, It's
dirty and it's all mine."
Alan Bunker
Ex- Editor, Amiga Action
"I remember the first hard disk I had on my machine.
It was a 40Mb monster, about the size of a small
fridge. What with that and the €8010 accelerator
with 2Mb of extra memory, I had the hardest Amiga
on the street"
Martyn Brown,
Creative Director
Team 17
"My first Amiga was a very early A50Q with Kickstart
on disk, which looked very sexy compared with my
Amstrad 612. 1 remember spending half the night
wiring a special adapter to get the damn thing to
work in colour on the Amstrad monitor.
I was amazed at the wonderful Icons and the
way the pointer changed during the numerous
floppy disk accesses. Yummy."
Bryan Cobley
First Computer Centre
"It has been fairly well documented in the pages
of Amiga Format that I bought my first Amiga
because I am stupid. Not stupid to buy a computer
that (in Its day) stood head and shoulders above all
other affordable home machines, but stupid
because I could never remember what records I
owned and which ones I wanted to own.
I had had a Vic 20 and a C64 (and even a plus
4!!!}, so I was (I suppose) a trifle pre-disposed to
buying another Commodore machine. But, in those
days, the Atari ST was the more logical choice. It
was £100 cheaper, had a larger installed user base
and more software selection.
But Superbase (Personal V1.0) was really
what swayed me. Combined with the 51 2K
memory and Internal floppy drive (and a Star LC-10)
it meant I could, after literally weeks of mind-
numbingly boring data entry, carry a list of all my
records around with me wherever I went. Of course,
the 10-star games pack included with it had an
effect too!"
Marcus Dyson
Ex-Editor, Amiga Format
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1 992: Congratulations!
It's triplets!
Not content -with sneaking the A500+ on to the
market, Commodore decided to release another
new machine early in this year. The A600 was
aimed at the console market, with a low cost
and few expansion possibilities. Basically a
cut-down A500+, the A600 lost the numeric
keypad and sprouted a PCMCIA (Personal
Computer Memory Card Association) slot on
the side. Commodore hoped that this
would be picked up on by developers,
but the A600 didn't sell particularly
well. It wasn't until a couple of years
later that people really began to use
this versatile port.
The high-end of the market also had
a new launch to contend with in the
form of the A4000. This workstation
machine was fitted with an IDE hard
drive, the AGA chipset and Workbench
3 as standard. Not content with this,
Commodore also launched the A1200 at
the Future Entertainment Show in
December. This was envisaged as the
replacement for the mid range A500, with
the new AGA chipset, the possibility to fit a 2
1/2 inch IDE hard drive and expansion
possibilities through the PCMCIA slot and
trapdoor slot on the base of the machine.
Long-time Managing Director of
Commodore UK Steve Franklin left the
company under some slightly dubious
circumstances to be replaced by Kelly Sumner,
who had started at Commodore as a trainee
bench engineer.
1993: I'm dreaming of
an Amiga Christmas?
Regrettably, Christmas 1992 was not
particularly good for Commodore. People
weren't buying the A600 because they wanted
to get an A1200 instead, but A1 200s were in
incredibly short supply. Sales over the
normally buoyant Christmas period were poor,
and things weren't helped by the rapidly falling
price of PCs. However, once stocks of the
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A 1200 began to reach England they sold
extremely well, and many programmers started
working on AGA-only games and products.
Production of the A600 ceased in the
Summer, and it was generally acknowledged
that it had not been the best Amiga in terms of
technical achievement or sales. Price cuts on
the A1200 had undercut their own machine,
although the price of the A600 had been
lowered to only £199 in the final months.
Many dealers had been caught by surprise by
this cut, and many were left with stocks which
they couldn't sell.
More boardroom reshuffles occurred in
April, with Kelly Sumner leaving Commodore
to join games publishers Gametek. His
position as MD was rilled by David
Pleasance, who returned from a stint
in the US-side of the company.
Many other prominent people also
left the company at this time,
including multimedia designer
Jim Mackonche and the
excellent technical support
manager Clive Fort. Both of
these people had been
instrumental in building the
Amiga and creating the good
relationships with developers which
had brought the Amiga this far.
Commodore surprised many by launching
the CD-", a CD-ROM-based games machine in
July. They had obviously learnt the lesson of
the CDTV and had worked closely with
developers to ensure that plenty of games were
available at the launch. In fact, a number of
games publishers had been involved at a very
early point in the design process. Also promised
was an FMV unit which would allow the CD 32
to play Video CDs, holding out the promise of
games which include full motion video.
1 994: It was the best of
times, it was the worst
of times...
This year started on a pretty positive note, with
extremely good sales being announced over the
Christmas period for the CD 32 games console.
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(ex) Commodore UK.
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No prizes for knowing
who this geezer is.
The CD 32 games console was outselling PC
CD-ROM and Sega Mega CD by Easter 1994.
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Shopperfeature
19 P Although it had not lived up to Commodore's
expectations, it was still selling well. In fact, by
Easter, CD 32 games were outselling PC CD-
ROM and Sega Mega CD games.
Unfortunately, things went a bit wrong
from here on. On 29th April, Commodore's
parent company, Commodore International,
went into voluntary liquidation with debts of
over half a billion dollars. Although
Commodore UK continued to trade, this
liquidation meant that no more machines were
being manufactured and supplies in the shops
began to dry up. David Pleasance and Colin
Proudfoot announced their bid for the remains
of Commodore International on 7th July, but
the incredibly complex structure of
Commodore meant that the process of selling
it off would not be as easy as first thought...
It wasn't all bad news, though. New
products continued to arrive and Newtek
finally released an unbundled version of their
excellent 3D rendering program LightWave.
This meant that users in the UK could finally
get their hands on the program without having
to buy an entire Video Toaster package, which
was completely useless with our TV standard.
Other significant products included the
Zappo CD-ROM drive, which allowed A 1200
owners to play CD-" games and get at the ever
increasing range of Amiga CD-ROMs.
Almathcra also made their play for the image
processing and paint program market with
their 24-bit graphics program Photogenics,
which was released shortly before Christmas.
1995: This Is the end,
beautiful friend?
Although both of the main bidders for
Commodore - the management buy-out
team and CEI - hoped to have a deal tied
up before Christmas of 1994, a third, late
bidder has now entered the whole process in
the form of German computer manufacturer,
Escom. (By the time you read this, the owner
should be confirmed,)
Although many programmers and
manufacturers have decided to hold off
releasing new products until the buy-out goes
through and new models of Amiga are
released, many new products have continued
to appear. For instance, Ramiga International
recently unveiled their Ramiga Z5 and Z7
systems, which can turn a lowly A1200 into a
big-box machine complete with a proliferation
of Zorro slots. Macrosys terns released V-Lab
motion, a Zorro card which can read in live
video and save it to hard disk on the fly.
It's not quite of the same quality as DPS's
excellent Personal Animation Recorder, but it
is rather cheaper.
A man famous for making motor cars once
said: "History is more or less bunk. It's
tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to
live in the present and the only history that is
worth a tinkers damn is the history we make
today". While I don't normally agree with
industrial dictators like Henry Ford, he does
have a point.
What makes a machine strong is not only a
long and glorious history (which the Amiga
most definitely has), but a committed user-
base and programmers and designers willing
to take chances and try new things.
Fortunately, the Amiga is well blessed with
all of these. Although with the demise of Q
Commodore and the consequent loss of sales
it's taken some knocks, I think the machine
and the market are resilient enough to keep on
going from strength to strength. mm
Here's to another 10 years... I ^t
1. The first demo of the Amiga.
This took place at the Consumer Electronics Show
in Chicago in 1985. Only a selected few industry
figures were allowed to see the machine, although
the legend is that if you went up one set of stairs
and leaned over, you could see into the back of the
booth. It's not recorded if anybody fell to their death
trying to sneak a look at the new wonder machine.
2. The launch of the A500.
Although the first Amiga to be launched (the A1000)
is a great machine, it is exceedingly expensive at
around £1,500 and does not do well against the
competition such as the Atari ST. The new machine
is much cheaper at £599 and rapidly becomes the
standard Amiga, Commodore also realised that a
machine is much more attractive if it is bundled with
some software. A series of excellent bundles and a
number of price cuts ensured that the A500 is one of
the most popular computers of the late Eighties and
early Nineties. Although It has been superseded by
several newer models, many an Amiga owner is still
happily bashing away with an A500.
3. The launch of the Video Toaster.
This Incredible piece of video hardware (produced
by Kansas-based company Newtek) created a whole
industry overnight by putting the power to create
video effects, animations and other stuff without
having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
on equipment.
4. Baggers buys his first Amiga,
With his student grant cheque burning a hole in his
bank account, he rushes down to a computer store
in Tottenham Court road to buy one of these new
machines he's heard so much about.
Regrettably, a banking error leads to the bank
refusing to honour his cheque. However after a
short discussion (translation - shouting session)
with a member of the bank staff, he purchases the
Item and rushes home to get fiddling with DPalnt
and shoot some bad guys in Batman.
5. The launch of Amiga Shopper.
Although Amiga Format had been dedicating a fair
amount of coverage to the serious side of the
Amiga, many people began to feel in May 1981 that
it was about time that a decent serious-only Amiga
magazine was launched. Spooklly enough, this was
the exact month that Future Publishing launched
Amiga Shopper. The launch editor was Bob Wade,
who now runs the Software house Binary Asylum.
6. The launch of the A 1200.
By the end of 1992 it was becoming obvious that the
Amiga range needed a kick up the virtual bottom.
Although the A5Q0+ was still selling well,
Commodore's lead was being eroded by the rapidly
falling price of PC-compatible machines at one end
and the increasing dominance of consoles at the
other. Something was necessary to get things
moving. That thing was the A1200.
However, things did not go as well as Commodore
had hoped. Supply problems meant that A 1200s
were in short supply in the critical Christmas period
and who would want to buy an A500+ when the new
machine was just around the corner?
7. Amiga Format give away one of the best ever
Amiga ray-tracing programs on a Coverdlsk (AF53)
Imagine 2 originally achieved a mark of 93 per cent,
but as AF are such as great bunch of people, they
decided to give it away.
8. Foundation Imaging win an Emmy.
Ron Thornton and Paul Beigle-Bryant of graphics
company Foundation Imaging are both long-time
Amiga users. In fact, Ron gives much of the credit
for the stunning graphics he produces for programs
such as Babylon 5 to the Amiga and the excellent 3D
program LightWave.
9. The launch of the CD 32 .
Despite recently revealing some heavy losses,
Commodore wheel out the big guns (Medhi Ali,
David Pleasance and Lew Eggebrecht amongst
others) for the launch of this new games machine in
July 1993. A number of impressive-looking titles are
lined up, including the great looking Microcosm
from Psygnosis. Commodore predict sales in excess
of 250,000 before Christmas. Although the machine
sells well, that figure proves to be overam bilious.
10. The voluntary liquidation of
Commodore International.
After several months of speculation and heavy
losses, Commodore International go Into liquidation
on 29th April 1994. The assets of the company are
handed over to the liquidator. Although the parent
company has gone into liquidation, some subsidiaries
(such as Commodore UK and Commodore Germany)
continue trading so the company can be sold as an
on-going concern. A meeting will take place on 20th
April in New York to decide the fate of Commodore
international. No Amigas have been manufactured
since the liquidation.
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1. What was the month and year of Amiga
Shopper's very first issue?
2. Who was the first ever editor of Amiga Shopper?
3. Where did Commodore launch the A1 200?
4. In what year was the A500 launched?
5. Which three companies have put in a bid
for Commodore?
• A 3D Arena CD from Almathera. Turn to page 37
to find out more about this excellent collection for
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per cent and an Amiga Shopper Star buy award.
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What to do
Send your answers on a postcard - or on the back of
a sealed envelope - to:
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Amiga Shopper, Future Publishing,
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The closing date for this competition is Tuesday,
30th May 1995,
The rules
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2. The editor's decision is final.
3. Employees of Future Publishing Limited,
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aren't allowed to enter this competition.
• Datastore from
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• Acid Blitz Compiler (ABC) Version 1 from
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• Internet, Modems And The Whole
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• Ultimate AMOS by Jason Holborn.
• ARexx: Your Amiga's Built-in Turbocharger
by Toby Simpson.
Watch out for a feature on ARexx by Toby in
the July issue of Amiga Shopper.
June 1995
ShopperSupertest Genlocks
Sieve McGill
Genlocks
"The genlock is
performing three
functions: the
genlocking itself;
graphics-encoding
of the Amiga's
display; and Video
Overlay Switching,"
The Lola Minigen has been around for years in
various guises and price settings.
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There's a whole load of mind-boggling questions to be taken into
consideration before purchasing a genlock for your Amiga.
Steve McGill has got a pretty good idea what they are.
There are lots of important
points that need to be looked
at seriously before
purchasing a genlock for your
Amiga. Some of them range
from practical aspects such as, having
enough physical room on your desk to
accommodate the genlock, as well as the
other video gear residing there.
Just as important is the length of the leads
connecting the genlock to the Amiga - the
Rendale 8802 has a notoriously short lead
which can cause problems. Then there's the
type of connectors carrying the various video-
signals themselves. Purists nearly always state
that BNC connectors are the best. But,
considering that most consumer video gear
uses much more convenient RCA phono plugs
and sockets, it makes sense to keep everything
homogeneous. That is, phono - phono video
and audio cables. These leads are generally
available from most high street stores, and a
few of the genlocks on test here include the
requisite leads anyway.
Don't forget the style question either. Does
the genlock fit your sense of aesthetics? The
look of some of the genlocks tested here are
less than inspiring. Whereas some look as if
they belong in an LWT studio. The aesthetic
side of things is important if you intend to go
into business. Clients may want to visit your
studio, and if it doesn't look impressive, they'll
form their opinions independently of anything
you have to say about the business.
Now, all this talk of going into business
What a genlock does
A genlock basically does three things. When fed an
external video -sign a I - be it from a camcorder,
VCR, laser disc, or some other video-source - it
reads the various video-timing signals - line, frame
and colour burst, and 'locks' the Amiga on to that
source's signals.
Once done, it means that both the Amiga
display and the video-signal are writing the same
colour in the same area at the same time on the
video picture display.
As soon as both of these displays are 'locked'
together, the equivalent of a high-speed video-
switching mechanism kicks in which alternates
between the video-source and the Amiga's graphic
may seem a little grand if you only own an
A500 and the cheapest genlock on the market,
but don't listen to anyone who casts
aspersions on a set-up such as that - it's still
incredibly powerful. Certainly powerful
enough for you to impress all of your friends,
colleagues, teachers and relatives. What's
more, you'll learn to work within the
limitations of the equipment and probably
find that, as a side-effect, you become more
creative in the process.
Lola Minigen
(Composite-only genlock)
The cheapest genlock to make it into this test,
the Minigen has been around for years in
various guises and price settings. The reason
for its popularity is twofold; it's cheap and it
outputs a surprisingly stable signal that puts
some of its Supertest stablemates to shame.
The Minigen looks like a slightly oversized,
black-ribbed, standard Amiga modulator
minus the sound sockets. The first thing you
have to decide when considering this genlock
is whether or not there's a chance of your
Amiga or other equipment being moved
around - there's a 12-volt rail on the RGB
output and if accidents do happen, it may
short out your Amiga, With a little care and
attention that will never happen.
The unit sports RCA phono sockets for the
composite input and composite output signals.
On the top of the unit there's a toggle switch
to choose between Amiga graphic output only,
display. The result is a mix of Amiga graphics on
top of the video-signal.One of the Amiga's colour-
registers, usually colour zero, becomes transparent
to the video-source and all areas that consist of
this colour will show the video picture instead.
Effectively, the genlock is performing three
functions: a) the genlocking itself; b) graphics
encoding of the Amiga's display, and; c) Video
Overlay Switching.
tn all, a genlock is a box of sophisticated
delights. It should be remembered that all the
genlocks tested here degrade the integrity of the
original signal. It's a fact of life. With the best
ones, however, the effect is barely noticeable.
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Lola L1500 is an impressive performer if you don't
have to make use of higher band video signals.
The Amitek Fusion doesn't look as professional as
the LI 500, but on test they performed similarly.
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Composite video - Standard video-signal
used by VHS and 8mm video machines.
Consists of chroma, video, blanking and sync
- hence CVBS.
Y/C or Hi- Band - Splits the video-signal so
that the luminance (brightness) of the signal
and the chroma (colour) are kept on separate
channels. This leads to less cross-Interference
between the two picture components and
hence a better picture.
RGB - Superior digital signal used with
component video equipment such as that
found in broadcast stations. Not to be
confused with the analogue signal output by
your Amiga's RGB port.
RF Video - Radio Frequency Video. A
combined sound and vision signal used
for transmitting video pictures. Most TVs
have an RF socket for connection to an
external aerial.
video-signal only, and mixed graphics and
video. There's no problem with the toggle
other than its location which is always going
to be at the back of the Amiga. Not the most
practical set-up if you're spending
unnecessary amounts of time fumbling around
in a dimly-lit studio or bedroom, trying to
locate the toggle.
These gripes are wiped out when you take
the performance of the Minigen into
perspective, though. Bearing in mind that
there are no faders, colour correctors or
adjusters of any sort, the quality of the
recorded signal is outstanding, considering the
price of the unit. Although, if an acceptable
recording of Amiga graphics only is required,
make sure that some form of stable sync is
going into the Minigen. A camcorder with the
lens cap on is an ideal source.
All in all, a fantastic genlock and the one
that wins the award for best beginners and
best budget genlock.
Lola Minigen
"The least flexible genlock in the Supertest, but
one of the best performers on a pound-to-
performance ratio. It's the ideal way to_
find out if Desktop Video is for you."
£69,00
Lola Marketing
Contact 01858 880182
Verdict: 90%
Star buy
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Lola LI 500 Composite
(Composite-only genlock)
Earning a prestigious, though in retrospect,
perhaps not a thoroughly deserved 93 per
cent, in the April 1995 edition of Amiga
Shopper (see below for the Amitek Fusion
test), the L1500's secret lies not only in the
impressive specification of Lola's custom-built
1452-01, wide bandwidth, genlock chip, but
also in the high-quality construction and
design of the casing.
Connection-wise, everything's here that
you could want. The cable connection from
the Amiga's RGB port to the LI 500 allows you
to position the unit where it's most
convenient; there's RGB pass-thru so that you
can work from an RGB monitor as well as a
composite monitor if required; there's BNC
connections for video in and video out - BNC
to phono adaptors are provided (nice one
Lola), and there's even a socket for connection
to an up-and-coming Lola chromakey unit.
Slightly larger than a typical external disk
drive, the top panel of the LI 500 sports all of
the functional buttons and sliders that make
the unit both simple and a joy to use.
There are four LED indicators in all, three
keying/signal routing switches and two faders.
Three of the LEDs are attached to the keying
switches. This is incredibly handy, because it
means that you only have to take a quick
glance at the unit to see which genlocking
state you're in.
These states arc; Key on - traditional
mixing of video and Amiga graphics; Key off -
Amiga graphics only; Bypass - throughput of
the video-signal only.
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Although that may not seem much
different from the toggle switch that sits on
top of the Minigen, due to the superior
specification of Lola's custom chip, it means
that switching between these different modes
can take place without disturbing the output
signal. That is, no glitches or interruption of
the sync takes place, so you can record direct
to video without fear of a jumpy playback
picture. Excellent - and a boon to those with a
creative bent.
Further features which complement this
already excellent specification are the linear
faders: Dissolve and Fade. Fade, as the name
suggests, fades the video-signal to black.
Dissolve does the same with the Amiga
graphics, except that, rather than fade the
graphics to black, they dissolve into the
video-picture.
The faders move smoothly and, unlike
most of the genlocks with similar
specifications, the fading and dissolving takes
place throughout most of their travel distance
providing seamless dissolves and fades.
And on top of all this flexibility, the Lola
also provides stable mixed graphic output on
non-standard video-signals such as those
experienced with paused video. Lots of
creative potential lie in this direction.
The Lola LI 500 is an impressive
performer. If you don't need to make use of
higher band video-signals, it's a winner, but
read what we've got to say about the Amitek
Fusion before making up your mind.
Lola LI 500 Composite
"From the build design and ergonomics, to
the stability of the signal, the LI 500 reeks
quality. A sound, but perhaps not a top value
purchase for all Desktop Video studios not
requiring Hi-Band video."
Price: £176,25
Supplier: Lola M arketing
Contact: 01858 433501
Verdict: 85%
Amitek Fusion
(Composite-only genlock)
Marketing is a funny old game. Take the
Amitek Fusion and the Lola LI 500 genlocks
for example. They're both essentially the same
genlock with a few cosmetic and re-visional
changes to the Lola.
The Amitek is a revision 2 board, whereas
the Lola is revision 3, which means that the
only thing the Lola can do that the Amitek
can't is fade a video-signal to black.
Now, considering that the difference in
price between the two units is over £76, fading
video to black is a sacrifice I would willingly
make for the substantial saving. There are
several colour processors and video correctors
on the market that can be purchased for that
price or less which, besides letting you fade
video to black, also offer a multitude of other
useful functions.
So what it all really boils down to here is
market positioning and targeting. It's all about
aesthetics and perception. The Amitek Fusion
doesn't look as good or as professional as the
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Steve McGil
Genlocks | ShopperSupertest
L1500. Despite both of these units using the
same casing, the Fusion's fascia is a textured
beige with smaller, cheap-looking, key select
buttons and one linear fader.
As a test, I showed both these units to
various people at Future Publishing and asked
them to tell me which of the units was the
most expensive. They were actively
encouraged to handle the units and inspect
them all over.
With the exception of one person, who
almost immediately noticed that they were
virtually the same unit, everyone stated
without hesitation that the LI 500 was the
more expensive of the two.
When asked why, they pointed to the
superior construction of the LISOO's casing,
the keying select buttons, the more polished
look of the unit and said that it 'felt' better.
So take special note the next time you give
something the once-over. Looks can be
deceptive. 'Perceived value 1 is what marketing
people call it. To see such an excellent
practical example of this marketing theory
take place during an Amiga Shopper test was
quite an eye-opener for this reviewer. It shall
be remembered well.
You'll have deduced by now that there
wasn't any discernable difference in
performance of either unit. As a bonus, which .
adds lace trimming to a cunningly disguised
cake, the Amitek Fusion comes bundled with a
copy of Scala's HT100 titling program. This
version has no clip art, backgrounds or
manual, but it's still incredibly useful to
DTVers on a tight budget,
Amitek Fusion
"The recommendation is clear. If yeu have no
need for Hi-Band video in your set-up, the
Amitek Fusion is the out and out winner of the
budget and composite-only genlocks
round up. Tremendous value."
£99.00
Supplier: Silica Systems
Contact: 0181 309 111
Verdict: 92%
Star buy
Rocgen Plus
(Composite -only genlock)
Another composite-only genlock, the Rocgen
Plus is undoubtedly one of the best-selling
genlocks on the market at present. However,
the rising popularity of the Lola 1 500 and
the Amitek Fusion should see a sharp change
in circumstances.
Housed in a heavy-duty beige metal case,
the Rocgen Plus offers a reasonably wide
range of features. There are two LED
indicators - one to show that power is
reaching the unit, the other to let you know
that there's a video-signal going into the unit.
It also has two rotary iaders which, depending
on their position, let you achieve various
keying effects: full graphics; full video; normal
keying of mixed graphics and video and
inverse keying - more commonly known as
kcyholing, where ever)' instance of graphic
that isn't colour zero lets the video-signal peek
through. When the rear of the unit is
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inspected, there are more features to be
discovered. An integral lead which connects to
the Amiga's RGB port and passes through the
RGB signal is present.
Not only that, but next to the standard
RCA phono-video input and output sockets,
there are also two other sockets. One of them
is a straight video pass-thru to let you check
the integrity of the incoming video-signal. You
could, in effect, have up to three monitors
connected to the Rocgen Plus at the same
time. Doing so may seem extravagant, but it
does allow for maximum flexibility.
The other socket marked 'key in' is
designed for use with RocTec's chromakey
unit, the RocKey. Truly remarkable effects,
including video sandwiching, are made
available with this unit.
The last feature of note on the Rocgen Plus
is the provision made for an optional power
supply to be connected the genlock. At first,
this would seem like a boon. The Rocgen
Plus is notoriously thirsty for power and has
been known to cause malfunctions if allowed
to get hot enough. Sadly, tracking down a
power supply that will satisfy the beast is a
thankless task. If anyone out there knows
where you can obtain a 12-volt l-amp supply,
then let us know.
At the time of release, the above features
set a new standard for Amiga genlocks. But
technology marches on. The Rocgen's signal
has always been relatively poor, Both the
Amitek Fusion and Lola 1500, and even the
Minigen, exhibit superior output signals to the
Rocgen Plus.
It's not capable of displaying a fully mixed
overscan signal; a five or six-line vertical strip
of Amiga graphic always appears on the right
hand of the screen. The Rocgen Plus achieves
the 'not-good-enough-any-more' award.
Rocgen Plus
"It looks good on paper. Unfortunately for
the consumer, the paper spec benefits don't
make the transference into the realm of
practical use."
Price: £139.00
Supplier: Silica Systems
Contact: 0181 309 1111
Verdict: 70%
GVP G-Lock
(Composite, Y/C, Y/U/V)
It's certainly no accident that the manual
pronounces the GVP G-Lock as the ultimate
genlock. For the price-to-performance, and
price- to-features ratio, no other genlock in this
Supertest can touch it.
Catering for two composite inputs, or
one Y/C input, this genlock can be used as a
simple A/B roll switcher between composite
inputs - a function that doesn't always give
reliable results because of the need for a lime-
base corrector.
Beside that, there's also the ability to
transcode between composite, Y/C and Y/U/V
signals respectively - making the G-Lock one
or the most flexible genlocks on the market.
And that's not all it can do in the transcoding
June 1995
The Rocgen Plus is undoubtedly one of the best-
selling genlocks on the market, but deservedly so?
It's certainly no accident that the manual
pronounces the GVP G-Lock "the ultimate genlock".
"Take special
note next time you
give something the
once-over - looks
can be deceptive."
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Steve McGil
Mama's 290 outputs one of the cleanest signals of
any of the genlocks in this Supertest.
Like all Hama equipment, the first thing that
strikes you about the 292 is the build-quality.
"The G-Lock wins
the award for
'best all-round-
and-most-likely-to-
see-any-situation-
through' genlock."
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department. Feed the genlock a SECAM signal
and the unit transcodes it to standard PAL
with minimal signal loss. The unit can also be
forced to work in NTSC if need be.
To add to the all-singing, all-dancing,
functionality of the beast, it also makes
limited sound mixing available to the user. It
accepts up to two inputs, mixes them and then
beefs out the result in mono. Like all of the
other functions of the unit, control is realised
through modular and easy-to-use software
control panels.
Setting up the software to run the
G-Lock can be quite tricky, but with a little
perseverance and attention to the logically
laid out and easy-to-follow manual,
installation and use should present no
discernible problems.
Be warned though, the G-Lock makes use
of the joystick port. If you run software that
uses a dongle, or hardware that draws power
from the port, you'll run into problems which
may not be immediately solvable.
The flexibility of the software is further
enhanced by the ARexx port. Pros, semi-pros
and adventurous amateurs can write, or have
written for them, scripts that will let the unit
be completely controlled horn other software.
For example, the Hama A- Cut edit controller
could instruct the G-Lock to insert titles, colour
correct video scenes (the unit also colour
corrects video and RGB signals), or mix audio
with sequences of shots and cuts as the editor
wants. It's astoundingly flexible.
And that is the crux of this unit. Much like
the software that drives it, it will grow and
integrate with all but the highest end
equipment. You could easily start out with a
Kickstart 1.3 machine, two basic VHS machines
and a G-Lock and then progress to a full S-
Video suite with an A4000 and a Betacam
recording deck and still find that the G-Lock
was coping perfectly well with the situation.
The G-Lock wins the award for 'best all-
round-and-most-likely-to-see-any-situation-
through' genlock,
GVP G-Lock
"An excellent genlock that will grow with the
aspirations of the DTVer behind it.
Awesome in its flexibility and features."
£269,00
Supplier: Silica Systems
Contact: 0181 309 1111
Verdict: 91%
Star buy
Hama 292
(Composite, Y/C)
A well-known and prestigious name in the
consumer video equipment circle is that of
Hama. Like all Hama equipment, the first
thing that strikes you about the Hama 292 is
the build-quality. It's solid and robust and if it
wasn't another company's advertising phrase,
something like "Vorch sprung dcurch technic"
would spring to mind
Roughly the same size as two paperbacks
placed together, your eyes are almost
immediately drawn to the large space set aside
for two SCART sockets. Yup, unfortunately, the
June 1995
user is forced to resort to the most universally
hated connectors in the business.
The manual does state that there are
too many potential connection combinations
out there to make bundling a couple of
cables a commercial alternative. So it's
worth bearing in mind that you may have to
fork out anything up to forty quid for suitable
cables that you'll inevitably end up hating
because of their unwieldiness. A sobering
thought indeed.
However, provision i.s made for
composite or Y/C video-signals. Unlike the
GVP G-Lock, the Hama 292 does not
transcode signals. In effect, it limits you to
either a composite source and composite
recorder, or a Y/C source and Y/C recorder.
No mix of equipment is allowed. Depending
on your equipment set-up, this could represent
a serious set-back.
Another potential set-back is the lack of an
RGB pass-thru port. It's always nice to work
with original computer signals until you're
ready to start recording. The lack of pass-thru
means that it is inconvenient if you prefer to
work this way.
On the plus side, the unit does let you
colour correct the encoded RGB signals
individually. This can be incredibly handy for
avoiding over saturation of the mixed
graphics - one of the biggest causes of
headaches while recording.
As well as the RGB correction, a full,
clean, video fade to black can be realised
through the smooth rotary fader. Other
handy features include keyholing, Amiga
graphics only, fading of the mixed graphics
and a 12-volt 500 milli amp transformer;
handy for Ami gas with several other
connected peripherals.
Unfortunately for this unit, the price point
puts it up directly against the G-Lock. Despite
having handier to use manual controls, there
is no competition. If you've got this kind of
money set aside for a genlock, the Hama 292
fails to deliver. Of all the Y/C capable genlocks
on test, it gives out the poorest signal and
offers the least in terms of flexibility.
Hama 292
"Feels like the biz. It's only when you
start using the Hama 292 that you realise
there are too many shortcomings to make it a
worthwhile purchase."
Price: £299,99
Supplier: Hama Products
Contact: 01256 708110
Verdict: 78%
Hama 290
(Composite, Y/C, and RGB)
Slightly wider and around three quarters the
length of an Amiga 1200, Hama's heavyweight,
broadcast-quality genlock checks in at a cool
three quarters of a grand. A price guaranteed
to put all but the most exacting of semi -pros
and pros off the trail.
As you'd expect, the Hama 290 outputs
one of the cleanest signals of any of the
genlocks subjected to this Supertest. It also
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produced the best results when recording
Amiga graphics-only to tape without using an
external sync; largely due to the 290"s superior
built-in, black burst generator.
And that's only the first of the features
which make this piece of high-quality
equipment so special when put to work in a
DTV studio.
Not only does it use more convenient RCA
phono sockets, the Y/C signal is taken care of
using standard S-connectors; it also
transcodes directly to an RGB signal. This
makes it much easier to check the integrity of
the Y/C signal, either by plugging the RGB
output straight into a SCART-compatible
television, monitor, or a SCART-compatible
VCR. Handy and convenient.
But, it does make you wonder why they
didn't build in the circuitry to let you
transcode between composite and Y/C. This
would after all be more useful for editing and
dubbing between different equipment set-ups.
It would also make the unit even more flexible
than it is now.
For example, the 290 offers full colour
correction of the incoming video-signal. Not
only the chroma, contrast and luminance can
be adjusted, but also the degree of red, green
and blue that makes up the signal.
This is incredibly useful for compensating
for poorly shot sequences; for example, say
that you had shot some footage indoors
under tungsten lighting conditions and hadn't
taken a proper white balance. By adding more
blue or subtracting some red, the mishap can
be minimised. As an added bonus, you can hit
the bypass switch that resides on the front
panel to quickly check the output against the
uncorrected signal - much easier and more
convenient than the GVP G-Lock which would
require you to set up the requisite software
panels and then reset them.
Full fading of mixed graphics and video,
video-only, and graphics-only can all take
place from one or either of the two rotary
faders. These two faders are close enough
together and designed economically enough
for the DTVer to use both at the same time
with only one hand,
A couple of other features worth
mentioning is the inclusion of an independent
power-supply and an built-in RGB splitter
intended for use with slow scan digitisers.
In all, it's quite a package, but you can't
help thinking that the Hama 290 is overpriced
for what it does. To complement its excellent
hardware controls, it should have been
software-controllable and it should have had
an ARexx port as standard and more extensive
transcoding ability.
As it stands, the only real appeal it holds is
the quality of its output signal.
Hama 290
"It loses its appeal when you consider the
creative potential and convenience of a
software- driven genlock."
£299.99
Supplier: Hama Pro duels
Contact: 01256 708110
Verdict: 81%
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Rendale 8802 FMC
(Composite-only genlock)
The Rendale 8802 has long been the
workhorse of the Amiga Desktop Video scene.
It's made its reputation on the quality of its
output signal, its reliability and the build-
quality of the components used.
Housed in a solid metal-casing, there have
been quite a few changes made since the
original inception of the Rendale.
The first of these is that it now includes an
RGB pass-thru socket as standard. More
noticeable, though, is the inclusion of a little
box of tricks attached to the main unit by a
seven-core wire braid.
The box lets the videographer choose
between the various modes of genlock display.
That is: external video only - effectively a
video pass-thru; foreground - register
becomes transparent and the video-source
shows through in its place; Amiga only - self
explanatory, if recording of Amiga graphics
only is required, use this mode.
More interestingly, there are two
keyhole mode switches, the functions of which
are easier to use than explain. Put simply,
however, in keyhole Mode 1 , black becomes
the transparent colour, whether or not it's
colour zero. With keyhole mode, any colour
with red, green and blue values less than a
value of seven is regarded as black and thus
becomes transparent. Keyhole Mode 2 reverses
this operation.
Don't worry if you don't understand this. It
becomes apparent, natural and easy to use as
soon as it's played around with. With a little
foresight and careful planning it opens up a
new avenue for creative special FX. Clever use
of colour-cycling can make potential clients
gasp in wonder.
To supplement all of the above modes,
there is a rotary fader that almost makes full
use of the travel in the rotation.
In all, the Rendale 8802, despite its age
is a fantastic performer for a composite-only
genlock. The main criticism to be aimed
at it is has been around since the unit first
came out - the braid connecting the
genlock to the Amiga's RGB port is far too
short. In terms of desk space, you have to have
"The Rendale
8802 has long
been the
workhorse of
the Amiga Desktop
Video scene."
In all, the Rendale 8802, despite its age, is a
fantastic performer for a composite-only genlock.
There's a bewildering array of video standards and
signals to be chosen from.
From a consumer equipment point of view,
there's VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, S-VHS-C, 8mm and
Hi-8mm.
The main difference in the quality of these
different standards is measured by the resolution
of the video picture they can carry.
VHS and VHS-C's maximum resolution is
around 240 lines, although some of the better
equipment can manage 260, Smm Is slightly better
at around 250 to 260 lines.
Typical camcorder footage transmitted on
Jeremy Beadle's TV programme is shot using VHS
or 8mm camcorders. That's why the footage never
looks very good.
More Impressive, expensive and
broadcastable, are the Hi-Band standards: Hl-S, S-
VHS and S-VHS-C. Typical line resolution is around
400 lines. Exceptional camcorders, such as the
Sony VX1 3CCD chip camcorder, are capable
of resolving over 500 lines - although the
recording-deck attached is only capable of
replaying 500 of them.
The BBC's Video Diaries series gave the
subjects of the diaries modified Sony TRBOSs - an
excellent Hi-S camcorder - to film themselves with.
It's cameras like this that make the world
of Amiga DTV so exciting. Anyone with a bit of
artistic flair and creativity can create their own
showpiece video which is capable of being
broadcast unadulterated.
With the advent of numerous cable-TV
networks being set up around the country,
homespun talent in the shape of Amiga
Desktop Video Editors and Directors could come
to the fore.
Maybe the use of arty-farty old Andy Warhol
wasn't such a bad idea for the launch of the
Amiga after all.
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enough room behind the Amiga to locate the
Rendale. Otherwise you're asking for all sorts
of problems.
Admittedly, the fading and keying box
will sit on top of the Amiga with no problems,
and it's very convenient to have it close to
hand. But on the desk I use, the Rendale
was left hanging in a very precarious
position. Definitely worth thinking about
before any purchase,
Rendale 8802 FMC
"Tremendous performer in terms of functions
and signal quality-. Stands the test of time."
Pries: £178.00
Supplier: Marcam Ltd.
Contact: 01604 790466
Verdict: 84%
G2 Systems VC1
(Composite, Y/C)
The construction-quality of the VC1 hits you
as soon as you take it out of the box. It's been
built with durability in mind. The RGB cable
connecting the Amiga to the unit has to be
seen to be believed; 'heavy-duty' immediately
springs to mind.
Like equivalent quality hi-fi equipment,
the front panel is bare of flashing lights and
fancy buttons. All that adorns the fascia is two
linear faders marked 'cross fade' and 'fade to
black', and a three-way toggle switch which
switches between a mixed signal, video-only,
and Amiga graphics-only.
Used in conjunction with the faders,
several effects can be achieved with the above
three toggle positions. The most obvious of
these being the fading of overlay graphics into
the main picture. Beside that, full Amiga
graphics including the background colour can
be faded into and out of the source signal.
The only gripe with all of this is that the
fading takes place over less than a third of the
travel distance of the fader. It does seem a
trifle ludicrous,
As an added bonus to the fading and
switching functions, provision is made on the
rear of the unit for connection to the Amiga's
parallel port. This allows the fading and
switching functions to be controlled from
optional software.
Software control of a genlock's inner
workings is always a good thing, but use
of the parallel port to do so can, and usually
does, lead to conflict with other peripherals
vying for use of that port. It would have been
much better if the unit used the serial port
and provided the user with a serial pass-thru.
Still, it's nice that a genlock of the
VCl's quality has the option of software
control available. It helps to make up for the
lack of any signal correction whatsoever
from the unit.
Admittedly, it could be argued that you
shouldn't really have to correct the picture
in the first place. But when you see the
difference that can be made to the output
signal and the improved recording quality that
can be achieved, the initial argument pales
into insignificance.
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At this price, facilities for colour
correction should have been made.
Conveniently though, the G2 VC1 does
make allowance for limited transcoding. It
will transcode from Y/C to composite but
not the other way around. This isn't as
bad as it seems, because you get a better
quality composite signal if it's transcoded
from Y/C anyway.
Further features of interest are the key
output and the dip switches at the rear of the
unit. The key output drives an external vision
mixer. Among other functions, you can change
the colour keying colour with the dip switches.
Altogether the G2 VC1 is a highly versatile
unit and one that probably sees more use in
schools and colleges than anywhere else due to
its robust construction and ability to take
rough treatment.
The VC1 really is a fantastic performer.
The only throwback is the price. You can't
help but think that a reduction could go a long
way to selling more units.
G2 Systems VC1
"An excellent performer which inspires
confidence in the user. The only drawback is
the high asking price,"
£581,63
Supplier: G 2 Video Systems
Contact: 01252 737151
Verdict: 75%
G2 Systems Genesys
Apart from the colour of the fascia, the
inclusion of a plastic top on the toggle switch,
and an LED to accompany each of the toggle
switches three different positions, you could
be forgiven for thinking that the Genesys and
the VC1 were one and the same genlock.
It's only when you put them to work that
the differences become apparent. As the
difference in price suggests, the Genesys
outputs a higher quality signal than its VC1
stable mate; both composite and Y/C. It's
crisper, sharper, more stable and
unsurprisingly will let the video editor get
away with making extra generation copies
with minimal signal loss.
The option exists to upgrade to the G2
VC3 genlock which has a full broadcast
specification (the BBC and several cable
companies use it), but because it costs around
£2,000 we didn't include it in this Supertest!
The rear panel is virtually identical to the
VC1; inputs and outputs use professional BNC
sockets, the Y/C signal uses traditional S-
connector sockets. A toggle switches between
Y/C and composite, and again, the Genesys
will transcode from Y/C to composite but not
composite to Y/C. At just under £1 ,000 you
would be forgiven for expecting more
expansive transcoding facilities.
To save a small amount of space, the
remote connection for software control by the
Amiga is realised through a 9-pin D-connector.
Once connected, the software will select the
keying mode required and the degree of fading
on the mixed graphics and video, and the
video-signal itself.
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hits you as soon as you take it out of the box.
As the difference in price suggests, the G2
Systems Genesys outputs a higher quality signal
than its VC1 stable mate; both composite and Y/C.
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Keying doesn't have to take place on the
background colour either. Using various Dip-
switch settings on the back, the choice of any
of the first 16 colours in the Amiga's palette
can be used.
It would have been nice for this option to
have been put under software control. All
manner of fancy and clever special effects
could be realised. Nevertheless, it still has
many useful functions.
The amount of travel on the liner fadcrs is
made better use of and smoother fades can be
achieved accordingly.
In all, the Genesys is a better performer in
terms of signal -quality than any other genlock
in this test. Pros, semi-pros, colleges,
universities and industrial users will be able to
use it confidently to the full. An impeccable
pedigree for a genlock.
G2 Systems Genesys
"True broadcast specification genlock. If you
want the best Amiga genlock currentl y on the
market, you can't fail if you buy this.'
£934.13
Supplier; G2 Video Systems
Contact: 01252 737151
Verdict: 90%
Star buy
Microgen Plus
Oh dear. Of all the genlocks on test, this is the
one that we would warn potential purchasers
to stay clear of.
Doubts about the unit are immediately
raised as soon as it's taken out of the box. It's
made from a flimsy plastic that can easily be
squeezed with the fingers. The look and
design is shoddy; two bare toggle switches,
one LED and a cheap plastic knob embellish
the front panel.
Shielding is non-existent. Rogue signals
can, and do, interfere with the inputs and
outputs of the unit. As such, the output signal
is sufficiently degraded that merely displaying
it on a composite or S-connected monitor
makes it look bad {this unit is capable of
handling and processing Y/C video-signals).
Considering that the circuitry inside monitors
and televisions does its best to spruce up
incoming signals, is damning in itself.
Recordings made with the unit are awful.
They look like fourth or fifth generation copies
dubbed between VCRs with dirty heads.
Actually using the unit can be frustrating.
Switching between the various display modes
using the left-most toggle switch can lead to
complete loss of sync; the genlocked graphics
roll and tear and buzz. Trying to get a steady
output back is nigh-on impossible.
Furthermore, the unit is incapable of
outputting a clean overscan signal. Amiga
graphic shines through on about six vertical
lines. It's unattractive and unprofessional.
All this is a shame. The unit has a nice
spec; Hi-Band and composite signals,
keyholing, RGB pass-thru and fading.
In all, at this price, the unit had the raw
potential to be a real market winner, but that's
the crux of the pricing. Cutbacks have been
made on the quality of the components and
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the housing of the unit. And it shows. Oh, how
it shows.
Microgen Plus
"Written down on paper the specification to
price ratio looks excellent. In practice, this
unit is a loser."
Price: £179.95
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Verdict: 60%
Maxigen 2 Broadcast
If you use a mix of video-editing equipment,
such as a Hi -Band camcorder and normal
composite video decks, then pay close
attention to this genlock.
Although, at the price it's overshadowed by
the GVP G-Lock, in many ways the Maxigen is
much more convenient to use. Housed in a
black, solid metal casing, it certainly inspires
much more confidence in the user than its
poor stable-mate, the Microgen Plus.
The front panel boasts two rotary faders,
three slider switches and six screwdriver-
adjustable potentiometers. The rear panel
plays host to another three screwdriver
adjustable pots: Y/C in and out; composite in
and out; and ports for RGB pass-thru.
The screwdriver-adjustable pots represent
the most interesting features on the unit. They
allow the user to colour correct the signal
output so that it can be attuned to the
recording deck's heads.
Both the video picture and the RGB
intensity of the Amiga's output can be
adjusted. This means graphics that may bleed
on tape due to over-saturation can be adjusted
- a boon if you happen to be in a hurry.
Another notahle feature is the inclusion of
an overall colour correction adjuster. Much
like a television's saturation adjustment, this
control lets you adjust the overall colour-
output of the signal - all the way down to
monochrome if required. Cruder, in
comparison to the other adjusters, but
welcome nevertheless.
In a toss-up between this unit and the GVP
G-Lock, you have to make the decision
between software or hardware control. While
the software route is the only way to go if
automated editing is required, sometimes it's a
real pain not being able to fade or adjust at
the switch or twist of a button.
On the whole, the G-Lock is preferable,
but the Maxigen 2 isn't far behind. If possible,
arrange to see both of these genlocks in action
and then make your decision. I
Maxigen 2 Broadcast
"This could become a best-seller due to its
convenience in general, everyday usage. The
inclusion of software control would have
made it a smash."
Price: £299.95
Supplier: Power Computing
Contact: 01234 273000
Verdict: 79%
The Microgen Plus had the raw potential to be a
real market winner, but something went wrong...
In a toss-up between the Maxigen 2 and the GVP
G-Lock, you have to choose between having
software or hardware control.
June 1995
33
ShopperRevie
Hardware
John Kennedy
Golden
Gate
Looking for cheap hardware? John Kennedy has found a way of bridging the hardware gap and adding
extra serial ports to his Amiga for £100. Sounds too good to be true? Read on and find out for yourself.
One of the major selling points
when the A2000 was launched
was the addition of IBM-PC
slots alongside the Amiga
Zorro II expansion ports. By
adding a "bridgeboard", the Amiga could not
only run IBM-PC software, but also make use
of standard AT bus expansion cards.
Commodore made their own bridgeboard and
othars appeared - now it's difficult to find anyone
still selling suitable cards. Many people used the
bridgeboards only to run specific PC expansion-
cards and had no need for the Intel 286, 386, or
486 processor, nor the local memory or hard drive.
All that was needed was a way of linking the
physically unconnected PC- style slots to the Amiga-
side and some logic to fool the PC cards into
thinking they were safely installed in an IBM clone.
This is exactly what the GoldenGate2 card does.
With a huge, full-length Zorro 11/ PC card and some
drivers, it allows a wide variety of PC hardware to be
slotted into an A 1500, A2O00, A3000, or A4000.
Installation
The hardest part of using the GG2 is actually
inserting it into the Amiga. Unlike any other form of
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The GoldenGato2 card comes with an interactive
hypertext manual on floppy, using the AmigaGuide
system. It's well written and comprehensive.
Amiga card, it uses every connection in the single
Zorro slot it occupies, which means several
hundred pins have to be inserted at once. It can be
a tricky wrist-spraining business and when you have
done it once, you won't want to go through it again.
The rest of the process is straightforward;
install the necessary software and read through the
on-line AmigaGuide manual. The creators of the
GG2 board are {very commendably) into recycling,
so don't expect a huge manual, Instead the
AmigaGuide document covers just about everything
you'll need to know about using the card and the
rest of the disk is taken up with utility programs.
With the card in place, you are ready to start
adding the rest of the PC hardware. This includes
any non-DMA, AT-compatible PC cards, including
internal modems, multi I/O cards, IDE hard drive
controllers, Ethernet cards, A/D cards and so on.
More ports in a storm
PC owners are occasionally lucky. One situation
when they win over us more intelligent Amiga users
is when they run out of serial ports. If this happens
(and they usually have two to start with) all they
have to do is go down to the nearest computer
shop and buy a plug-in card for about £20, With
the GG2 fitted, that's exactly what I was able to do.
Now my Amiga has an extra two serial ports, an
extra parallel port, as well as another IDE interface,
I've been using a V34 28,800 modem off the
new serial ports for weeks now and have yet to
experience any problems, This is great news for
SysOps of Bulletin Boards, looking for a cost-
effective way of adding modems to their systems.
For the first time, PC internal modems can also be
Software drivers
In order for the Amiga's Operating System to
operate properly, it needs to be informed
about the presence of the extra PC
hardware. This is done using special
software "drivers". Currently, the GoldenGate
card is supplied with:
ibmser. device
A replacement serial device for use with
Internal modems and multi-l/O cards. The
driver includes automatic detection and use of
the 16550 FIFU buffer when available (that is,
makes full use of the better class of PC serial
card). Support for up to four serial cards at
once, equivalent to COM 1 to 4.
ibmprint.device
A new parallel output-only device driver for
printing through IBM style LPT parallel ports.
Support for up to three printers at once,
equivalent to LTP 1 to 3.
ibmlDE.devicc
A software driver to allow the use of IDE, RLL,
or MFM hard drives.
NEIOOO.device, NE20O0.dev!ce
These are SANA- 1 1 compliant Ethernet
drivers for Novell N El 000 and NE2000 boards
and compatibles.
Issue 50
John Kennedy
Hardware
ShopperReview
used - internal modems are usually slightly cheaper
than the external ones and always a lot neater.
Although I don't currently run a multiline BBS,
it's extremely useful having spare serial ports. I can
keep the MIDI interface connected to the original
and run my modem off the other. The spare can be
used with a colour scanner.
Forcing existing Amiga software to use the new
serial ports isn't hard, Most Comms software (such
as Term or Termite) allows the serial device to be
selected from a list. Select the replacement
ibmser.device over the usual serial. device, set the
unit number and away you go. Other programs are
supplied to set the preferences for the new ports,
as well as checking for the presence of the more
useful 16550 UART on some PC serial equipment.
It's almost as simple to use the parallel port,
although it has to be said that the majority of
programs don't allow the printing device to be
selected. In this situation, a supplied utility needs to
be run first, then you print something, allowing you
to re-direct the output to the port of your choice.
Unfortunately the parallel port driver is not bi-
directional, which means you won't be able to
connect video digitisers, sound samplers, or
networking system, such as Parnet, to it. This is a
notable inconvenience, but is due to hardware
restrictions and, of course, the Amiga's original
parallel port is still available.
Bloody PCs
If there is one thing I've learnt whilst experimenting
with the GG2 card, it is that I hate PCs. Not only
do PC users have to contend with Windows, but
their hardware is littered with IRQ values, I/O
addresses, Base Memory registers and packet
drivers. There is no "Autoconfig" on the PC and
until Windows 9* and the necessary BIOS systems
come standard, there probably never will be.
Take Ethernet cards for example. I foolishly
thought that any NE1 000-compatible card would
do, but the ones I managed to buy were "sort of
compatible and required their own drivers. Of
course, I didn't know this straight away - first I spent
two days experimenting with dip switches, trying to
set up the IRQ values and memory settings.
Assuming the network cards were truly
NE1 000, or NE2000 compatible, the software
drivers supplied with the GG2 would have allowed
me to network my A4000 to a nearby PC using
AmiTCP software (configurations are included in
the latest version of AmiTCP). This would have
allowed all manner of extremely fast file transfers,
using FTP and so on - my own mini-Internet.
If I had another big-box Amiga, GG2 and
Ethernet card (or another Amiga fitted with an
Amiga Ethernet card) I could have used the Envoy
networking software package and shared
resources, such as printers and hard drives. True
Amiga Ethernet cards are expensive and extremely
difficult to find and I was very disappointed not to
get my system up and running. I will be persevering.
Bad news
The bad news is that the most obvious PC card of
all is not yet supported. If you want to add a 24-bit
board to your Amiga, the price of similar PC cards
is enough to make you spit. Unfortunately, there has
yet to be a video driver written for the GG2.
This is a great shame, as it would mean that a
Issue 50
This is a PC mutti I/O card (not included with GG2) and it includes two serial ports, a parallel port and an
IDE port, all for about £20. It also provides a floppy disk interface and analogue joystick interface, but
driver software is not included to make use of these ports.
GG2 compatibility
1
The following IBM AT bus signals are supported:
• I/O Address space from hex $0000 to
$7FFF
• Memory address space from hex $90000
to$fffff
• 18-bit data bus
• All AT bus interrupts (IRQ
3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14 and 15)
• Wait states (IOCHRDY signal) for both I/O
and memory access
• 14,31818 Mhz Clock (OSC signal) from an
on- board crystal oscillator
• 7.2 Mhz processor clock (CLK signal)
• BALE signal
• DMA Is not supported, which rules out
sound card support
top-notch PC video card and a GG2 would still
cost less than a dedicated Amiga card. We can
only hope that as the GG2 becomes more popular
(as I have no doubt it will do) and more A1 200
owners sprout Zorro slots, that someone,
somewhere, will write an EGS driver for it. This
would enable programs such as the wonderful
TVPaint to be used.
More bad news occurs if you have an A2000
with a 68020 (or better), or an A3000, Because of
the way in which the Zorro slots work, there is a
conflict over how Zorro memory area is cached.
This can cause problems with any bridgeboard
system, the GG2 included.
The only way around the problem is to run
Enforcer (supplied) which ensures that the MM U
switches off the cache and so prevents the problem
from occurring. The A4000 has an improved Zorro
system that works fine and Enforcer is not required.
Also, there aren't as many free slots in an Amiga
as you think. After fitting the GG2 card, the A4000
will only have two PC slots free. Worse, using a PC
slot usually means the space isn't available for a
Zorro card, so you need to plan your expansion
campaign carefully, or invest in a Z7 Tower system.
These problems aren't flaws with the card itself, but
design limitations of the Amiga hardware. It's not
easy to get PC hardware working in an Amiga and
the GG2 does a very admirable job.
June 1995
Golden Gate 2 bridgeboard
Software Results Enterprises, 2447 North 4th
St., Suite B, Columbus OH 43202-2706
Voice: 814 262 S146
E-mail: erd@infinet.cona
sevant@inf inet . com
support Skumiss . inf inet .com
Please include a telephone number and, if
possible, an E-mail address when ordering.
The following useful World Wide Web is
managed by the GG2 people:
http; //www. inf inet . com/~erd/
A European distributor is currently being
organised - E-mail, or telephone Software
Results Enterprises for details.
Conclusion
The GG2 is a long overdue card. At last Amiga
owners can benefit from the reduced cost of many
PC peripherals and look at cost-effective
networking options.
Even software -based emulators, such as
CrossPC and PCTask, can make use of the
PC hardware and so join in the fun. With the
hardware-gap bridged, the way is clear for
inventive programmers to write the absolutely
necessary driver software to enable other
cheap PC cards to be used in the Amiga. We can
only hope that someone, somewhere is working on
a SVGA driver.
The manufacturers of the GG2 are an
extremely friendly bunch and, if you have E-mail
access, will be only too willing to answer your
queries or help iron out any problems.
When the Amiga owners get their act together,
it will be cards like the GG2 that will ensure that
the Amiga is still in use. ■
GoldenGate 2
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ROMs
Welcome to our regular round-up of what's new in the fastest growing software market - CD-ROMs.
This issue, Graeme Sandiford will be taking a look at two 3D CDs that have not followed the
standard stick-a-few-PD-objects-on approach.
It is a well known fact that CD-ROMs
are here to stay, but I must say that the
quality is not always as breathtaking
as the sheer quantity of new discs
hitting the market. Not so, however,
with these two superb new CD-ROMs.
The Light Works:
Digital Imagery
Now this is an interesting CD-ROM. Why? Mainly
because it isn't filled with PD objects like most
other CD-ROMs of its kind. In fact they are of an
extremely high standard, The main reason for this is
that they have been crafted by the hands of the
German 3D-maestro, Tobais Richter,
Those of you who are familiar with Tobais ! work,
will not be surprised to discover that most of the
objects he has created are spaceships from
popular sci-fi films and TV series. Among the
objects you'll find such classic vessels as the
Enterprise, the Deep Space 9 station, the
Deathstar, an imperial shuttle, all of the TIE fighter
models, the X-wing, Y-wing, VRProbe from
SeaQuest DSV, Darwin the Dolphin, the Cornelian
Corvette (AKA a blockade-runner) from the opening
sequence of Star Wars and, my favourite, the
Millennium Falcon - although Sue didn't recognise
it, puh [Ed - It was only half rendered!]. The
objects are supplied in three formats; Imagine,
Cinema 4D and Reflections.
As well as these examples of Mr Richter's 3D
prowess, there are some PD models. The subjects
that these cover are a bit more varied, although the
quality is not as high. Being a fan of the Battletech
books and games, I was quite pleased to discover
several 'mechs in the copious robots directory.
However, it's not all robots and spaceships -
there's an anatomy section, animals and, er... some
Star Wars objects too.
There are plenty more files to keep you
occupied. For example, you might want to try out
the demonstration version, Cinema 4D, that is
supplied on the disc. The program and the docs are
in German, so you'd best be prepared to experiment.
There are some quite useful textures too, A
large number of them are scanned images of real
surfaces, such as marble and metals. There are also
some PD computer-generated ones, which cover
organic, stone and wood-like textures. You can
even just sit back and ogle at the pictures and
Issue 50
This atmospherically light scene is a
great example of what can be done with
Lightwave. It's one of the example
images on 3D Arena.
This Image was created by that most famous of
German 3D artists, Tobais Richter. Other
examples can be found on the Light Works CD.
animations that have been supplied - there are
some particularly tasty ones from Tobais.
This must be one of the most surprising CD-
ROMs that I have encountered for some time.
The light Works
Price: £39.99
Supplier; PDSoft
Contact: 01702 466933
Verdict: 92%
Star buy
3D Arena
Although Almathera has produced many CD-ROMs
over the past years, this is the company's first 3D-
only compilation. As with The Light Works CD, this
is more than simply a collection of objects.
3D Arena's most interesting inclusion, for
LightWave users that is, is the LightWave
Collection Volume 1 from the 24-bit Club. This
collection, as reviewed in Issue 43 (85% rating),
comprises objects, JPEG textures, fonts and
complete scenes for LightWave 3.5. The great
thing about this collection is that you get several
good objects and textures and also learn a lot
about LightWave by examining the files and scenes.
The rest of the available data files are split
into directories for Imagine, LightWave, Real 3D,
DXF and 3DStudio. The Real 3D folder contains a
June 1995
demo version of 2.35 of the program, as well as
several utilities, objects, example pictures,
animations and tutorials. This is a great opportunity
to try out one of the most powerful 3D packages on
the Amiga- for free!
Although the imagine directory has no demo-
versions of the program, it has several objects
images and animations. It also has some helpful
tutorials on using the Forms Editor, Spline Editor
and version 3.0's bones function. These are all
areas that a lot of people have had trouble with and
it's good to have someone explain them properly.
The other format directories all have objects
and example images of what their products can
produce, except DXF - which is not a program,
simply a format. You'll also find several utilities for
different graphics cards, as well as absolutely loads
of graphically-orientated programs,
I must admit I'm hard pressed to decide which
of these two discs I prefer. 3D Area has support for
a greater number of formats, especially LightWave,
but the quality of the models in the Light Works CD
is superb. It's a cop-out, but why not buy both? ■
3D Arena
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Supplier: Almathera
Contact: 0181 687 0040
Verdict: 92%
Star buy
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ShopperReview
Painting/animation
Graeme Sandiford
DPaint
Yep, thaVs right, the wait is finally over. DeluxePaint V is actually finished and Graeme Sandiford
takes a first, excited peek at this new upgrade of a trusty old friend. So, was it worth the wait then?
To be quite frank, it's been so long
since the plans for version V had
been announced by Electronic Arts
(EA) that I'd forgotten all about it
The good part about that is that it's
come as a pleasant surprise - a bit like finding a
fiver down the back of an armchair.
Perhaps a better analogy would be bumping
into an old friend; after all DeluxePaint is probably
the first serious program and definitely the first
art package that every Amiga-owner used.
Admittedly, this is due, in part, to the fact that
several versions of DeluxePaint have been supplied
with the Amiga for so many years. However, the
main reason that it became the de facto painting
package for the Amiga was that it was simply years
ahead of the competition,
However, a long time has passed and it must
be asked; "does DeluxePaint still have what it takes
to be the best"? Since the release of version IV,
three new painting packages have been presented
to artistic Amiga-users. First there was Personal
Paint, which was effectively DeluxePaint with limited
image-processing features and without the
animation tools. Then came the challenge of
Brilliance and, most recently, Photogenics with its
real -wo rid drawing media,
Tried and trusted
One of the things that DeluxePaint had in its
favour was its Interface - indeed one or two other
programs have more or less duplicated the
Interface. It came as a bit of a shock when the
non-D Paint conformist programs, like Brilliance
and Photogenics, came out. But it was almost as
surprising to find out that DeluxePaint V's
Interface is practically identical to version IV. In
fact, I had to check the About menu to make sure
I had the right version.
Despite my initial disappointment, I can
understand why EA have stuck with the old
Interface. It has been tried and tested and has
proven itself as a good creative environment. Sure
enough, after half an hour's doodling I soon found
myself returning to old working habits. However,
while the Interface is certainly reassuringly familiar,
it can be improved upon. The prime candidate for
an overhaul is the colour selector - instead of
having to scroll through several colour banks, a
colourcube (as sported by Brilliance) would be a
better system.
Convinced that I wouldn't be able to find the
new features by clicking on a few icons, I decided
to brave the manual. As it turned out, this was
actually the right move, as the manual was both
Here's an excellent
example of what can
be done with DPaint
V's new Natural Media
roofs - notice the
texture of the canvas.
clearly designed and accessible. It also had one of
the things that can save you from completing hours
of pointless exercises - an appendix. In fact, there
are several and they all contain useful information,
such as ARexx and screenmode details. But, best
of all was the "what's new" section which will be of
interest to most of the people who are considering
buying DeluxePaint V, since they've probably used
earlier versions before.
Different strokes
So what is new? Well, the most notable addition to
DeluxePaint's repertoire is its new painting system.
Version V now has emulation of traditional artistic
mediums through its Natural Media function. This is
not only a good way to create more realistic and
atmospheric images, it is also useful to help
conventional artists feel more at home with the
DPaint's great animation system has been improved. The main image (800x200) can be loaded as a scrolling background even though it's bigger than the screen.
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June 1995
I Issue 50
Graeme Sandiford
Painting/animation
.hopperReview
DPaint V's new macro recorder is definitely a
worthwhile addition and has a number of uses.
The squiggle on the left was drawn without a
texture and the other with a canvas texture.
computer as an artistic tool, since they can easily
relate to different paints and textures - more readily
than they would to pixels and RGB values.
DeluxePaint's Natural Media system works by
combining textures with painting modes that have
the characteristics of chalk, oils, watercolours and
felt tips. Implemented by themselves, I don't think
that either technique would make a convincing
emulation, but together they do a reasonable job of
mimicking their real-world counterparts. Unlike the
normal painting modes, when you use the Natural
Medias and paint on an area of the screen, moving
the brush over the same spot again increases the
"amount" of paint in that area, making the colour
darker and fuller.
As the textures are based on IFF files, you can
create your own relatively easily by simply drawing
them. Despite the fact that this is probably the most
significant new feature, a surprisingly small amount
of the manual is dedicated to explaining it.
Nonetheless, it is a welcome addition, even if it isn't
quite as realistic as Photogenics' painting modes.
Another important new feature is the ability to
create macros - this is achieved through ARexx.
With this function it is possible to record actions
and repeat or save them to disk for later use. Once
they have been recorded, it's also possible to
assign macros to function keys so that they can be
replayed by pressing a button, A simple example of
what can be done with a macro is to create a
simple shape or to set up a Natural Media painting
mode - so you could switch from painting in oils to
painting with chalks by pressing a button.
EA have done a good job of implementing this
feature. Instead of having to create macros in a text
editor and worrying about syntax and so on, you
just start the macro recorder going, do your stuff,
stop the recorder and assign the macro. The
manual also does a good job of explaining how to
use this feature and there is a useful appendix that
details all of the commands that are available.
HAM at last
Support for the Amiga's HAM (Hold And Modify)
mode is probably the feature that EA have been
asked fpr most. This unique feature enables the
Amiga to display more colours. It would seem that
EA have bowed to demand, because version V now
has support for all of the Amigas' screenmodes,
including the AGA chipset's HAM-8.
In order to accommodate the extra colours,
some of DeluxePaint's tools have been modified
slightly. For example, the col our- indicator has
changed the way that the palette is organised.
The first 1 6 colours for standard Amigas, and the
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first 63 for AGA-machines, are treated as actual
colours (the palette), while the remaining ones
are classified as the colour-set. These are
treated as being separate and can be loaded and
saved independently.
While we're on the subject of colours, DPaint V
now supports 24-bit images. Thanks to a new 24-
bit buffer, it is possible to load, edit and save 24-bit
images. However there is no retargetable graphics
system, such as the one used by Personal Paint.
While it would have been nice to have had support
for 24-bit graphics boards, it can also be argued
that DPaint's features wouldn't really benefit all that
much. All the same, it would have been nice to have
that as an option.
Free at last
One of the problems that a lot of traditional artists
experience is adjusting to the way that a mouse
works as a freehand drawing tool. DPaint V has a
new feature called mouse tracking, it's only
available to Amigas with 020, or better, processors
and it smooths the lines you draw with the freehand
tool. It does this by buffering your mouse-
movements as you draw - it's not particularly fast,
but it does work and keeps your freehand
DPaint V can now save previews of an image by
creating a minature for its icon.
This background was created using a canvas
texture and the fill tool.
June 1995
drawings from being too jagged. Of course, it's not
going to make you better at drawing over-night, but
it will certainly help.
This feature also works with graphics tablets
and, when coupled with the new support for
pressure -sensitive tablets, it can really make
drawing a lot easier and more natural.
Animation has always been DPaint's strong
point and that has been improved upon too.
However, don't expect any revolutionary new
features, since most of the changes are merely
refinements of existing tools. Among these minor
changes are an improved light table, control over
frame rates, improved fading and translucency
options. Perhaps the biggest addition to the
animation department is a new camera moves
function. This can be used to zoom in and out of
images and create scrolling backgrounds more
easily. You can also load in animations of any size,
as long as you have enough memory of course. The
program also supports keyframing which can make
creating animations a lot simpler.
In conclusion
So, that's just about all of the new features. The
question remains as to whether DeluxePaint still
has what it takes to thrash the competition?
Although it pains me, I have to say that it doesn't.
There simply hasn't been enough changes to
enable the program to compete on an even level
with the programs that have come out since the last
version. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying
that changes should be made for the sake of
making changes, but the program has simply fallen
behind. The worst thing about it is that we've been
made to wait so long - after the long delay, I
expected something special.
The biggest asset that DPaint has is that it is
DPaint and that so many of us have been using it
for so long. I could go on to moan some more,
about the program's sluggishness, but I won't.
It's not all bad - the macros and Natural Media
are impressive additions, but DPaint V seems
like a half-hearted affair. It wouldn't surprise me to
find out that this is the last version. But, despite
all of this, DPaint is still a good paint package
and animation tool - it's just simply not the best
one anymore. ■
DeluxePaint V __
Price: £69.99
Supplier: Emerald Creative Technology
Contact: 0181 7158866
Verdict: 82%
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ShopperReview
Graphics card
Gary Whiteley
Picasso
The German manufacturers Village Tronic have started to build that well-regarded Picasso II graphics
card again, so Gary Whiteley finally gets a chance to put it through its paces.
When John Kennedy did his
round-up of graphics
cards in AS41, Village
Tronic's Picasso II card
slipped through the net
because It was temporarily out of production.
But now that German manufacturers Village
Tronic have started building Picasso II cards
again, we have the chance to review one of
these well -regarded cards and see if it Dives
up to its reputation.
According to the inscription on the card itself,
the design of the Picasso II dates back to 1 993, so
please don't get the impression that this is a brand,
spanking new card - it isn't. However, as a
competitor for the Retina, Piccolo, Spectrum and
Opalvision cards it's still very much a valid piece of
hardware and as such deserves a thorough review.
Like some of its competitors, Picasso II offers
retargetable graphics (RTG), meaning that
programs which use standard Amiga screens can
usually be promoted to higher, more stable
resolutions, along with the ability to display images
in S, 1 5/1 6 and 24-bit (true colour) modes. RTG
cards such as the Picasso differ from pure display
cards like Opalvision or Harlequin in that they can
run Workbench and software applications in much
higher resolutions than normal. For instance,
Imagine normally uses a 640 x 51 2 pixel screen,
but with a suitable RTG card this could be 1,200 x
1 ,024, or even more, for large, detailed, displays.
The hidden costs
But there are additional costs to bear for the
privilege of such crisp, clear screens. RTG cards
need multiscan monitors to give of their best, so
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using a standard 1084/8833 type RGB monitor
will generally be a waste of time because most (if
not all) of the higher resolution displays will either
be unavailable on a standard 1 5.6kHz RGB video
display, or they will flicker so badly you'll wish you
had some Ray- Bans handy.
To truly reap the benefits of higher resolution
displays you'll need a largish multiscan monitor
capable of at least 31 kHz horizontally (e.g. a VGA
monitor) but preferably one which spans 31kHz to
38kHz, or more.
If you want to use the same monitor for
standard Amiga functions and true video work, it
will also need to scan down to 1 5.6kHz, but finding
such a monitor is both difficult and expensive
nowadays, unless you buy second-hand. It's more
likely that you'll end up with something like
Microvitec's 1440 or 1 438 models (which can do
1 5.6kHz, but can't display video).
Picasso II drops into a Zorro slot, which means
it only fits into a "big box" Amiga. Installation is
straightforward - open the lid, find a spare slot,
remove the backing plate, plug in the card and
connect it to both your monitor (for which you'll
need a suitable lead) and to your Amiga's RGB
port (for which a lead is supplied, though you'll also
need a "silver blob" 23-pin to 1 5-pin adaptor or
suitable cable substitute).
As far as the software-side goes, the main stuff
June 1995
Requirements
Any Amiga with Zorro slots (i.e. Amiga 2000,
3000 or 4000), 2Mb RAM, Workbench 2.0 or
later, multiscan monitor (with scan rates up to
48kHz or more), A hard drive, more memory
(4Mb or more) and accelerator are
recommended for best results.
comes on two disks and includes all the drivers,
libraries and configuration programs needed to run
the card and display IFF, GIF and JPEG images, as
well as MPEG animations, on it. Two other disks
contain the ubiquitous TVPaint Junior - a cut-down
version of TecSoft's TVPaint - and an unregistered
copy of MainActor 1 ,52, a useful shareware
animation and stills conversion and display utility.
Smooth as silk
When I'm reviewing products, I often run into some
odd little problems whilst trying to get a new piece
of kit going. So, I was pleased when I had no
problems installing the Picasso II and its software
and connecting it to my Amiga and multiscan
monitor with the leads I'd put together for my recent
Piccolo-SD64 review. I was also pleasantly
surprised when I switched on and an Amiga screen
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Gary Whiteley
Graphics card
ShopperReview
appeared! All I had to do now was make sure that
everything ran the way it should.
Bigger is better
Part of the Picasso's job as an RTG card is to
provide improved screen outputs tor existing
software by forcing it to work in higher resolutions
than it would usually (at least without hacking the
sourcecode), To this end suitable programs can be
promoted to higher resolutions, higher frequencies
and/or more colours than their standard displays,
which in practice means flicker-free screens with
more detail and, hence, less eye-strain for the user.
Some programs can also utilise the Picasso's
ability to directly display graphic images which are
beyond the Amiga's own capabilities. For A2000
and A3 000 owners this is a particular boon, given
that these machines don't have the benefits of- the
256 colour and HAM-8 modes provided by the
AGA chipset. Even owners of Amiga 4000s will
benefit, since the Picasso II can display images in
24-bit - a display mode which is noticeably better
than AGA's HAM-8.
If your Amiga has AmigaDOS 3.0 or later then
the Picasso will allow standard Workbench displays
to use up to 256 colours, so although there will
never be a plug-in AGA upgrade for older Amigas
the addition of a Picasso II and AmigaDOS 3 will
provide more graphics combinations than a plain
old A4000 ever could.
Picasso in action
I tried my usual selection of serious software on it -
AD Pro, ImageFX, Professional Page 4, LightWave,
Imagine 3, Deluxe Paint IV, and more and ran the
Picasso as part of my everyday system set-up. My
first impression was that, even with its own blitter,
the Picasso II is relatively sluggish compared to the
more recent Piccolo-SD64, and screen redraws
and switching between Amiga and Picasso modes
aren't as fast as I'd like.
On the other hand, all the software I threw at it
worked - which is more than I could say when I
tried the SD64- although not always as cleanly as
might have been expected. There were problems
with some programs (including Imagine 3 and
Directory Opus 4} with mysterious blocky blobs
manifesting themselves where previous Amiga-only
displays would have been clean.
Things got even stranger when I tried
Modeler3D (Lightwave's modeller) because loaded
objects just disappeared on screen until a
requester had been called, then any part of the
object which had been "hidden" beneath it would
miraculously appear once the requester had been
closed. Bizarre! With ADPro I couldn't get the
Picasso Saver to successfully display 2 4- bit
images at resolutions greater than 640 x 480 -
Picasso II tech specs
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•
2Mb display RAM
•
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Screen resolutions:
•
3-bit (256 colour) - up to 1,600 x 1,200
•
15/16-bit
(32k/64k colour) - up to 1,152 x 900
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24-bit (16.7M colour) - up to 600 x 600
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Prices - PC v. Amiga
Amiga owners have often had to pay through the
nose for technology which, when sold for the PC
market, would probably cost half of what it costs
for the Amiga. The Picasso II could be a good case
in point, since It uses a Cirrus Logic chip (which Is
common in PC graphics cards), along with
reason ably- priced 256k DRAM chips. Such a card,
when sold for the PC, cost between £100 and
£150, but for the Amiga it is around £300. Granted
the market is smaller, but surely the difference can't
be justified in terms of custom software production
costs and reduced sales potential alone?
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display parameters available with your chosen
multiscan monitor.
larger screens just came out scrambled, even
though the viewer programs supplied with Picasso
would display the same images without trouble.
Conversely, neither ImageFX, nor
LightWave's Layout program had problems
displaying any of the various images or renders
which I threw at it. Nevertheless, I did manage to
crash LightWave by trying to swap screens while it
was rendering to the Picasso, so something isn't
completely hunky-dory here either.
One of Picasso's poorest areas is when it
comes to the custom setting of its screen modes.
Although the PicassoMode program is provided
to enable customisation, it is very inflexible and,
whilst it looks like there is plenty to adjust, when it
comes down to it, there's actually not that much
scope for change. Taking offense at two of the
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The unregistered copy o! Main Actor, a shareware
image and animation display and conversion utility,
is a boon for Amiga graphics aficionados.
Video compatibility
Although Picasso II can only output RGB
signals, Village Tronic also make the Pablo
encoder (£129.95) which can provide either
composite or Y/C video, though it has no RGB
output suitable for connection to a genlock.
However, Pablo has some problems when It
comes to overscan, so it is worth seeing a
Pablo and Picasso II in action with your
system before you part with your cash.
June 1995
{default) NTSC screen settings of 320 x 240 and
640 x 480 I decided to edit them to more useful
PAL sizes of 320 x 256 and 640 x 51 2, which I
managed reasonably easily.
However, these changes fail to show up when
a requester appears asking what size an application
should be retargetted to, Neither do the new sizes
appear in the standard Amiga Prefs/ScreenMode
menus, nor in other programs, such as ADPro and
ImageFX, which also offer screen size choices.
I also wanted to adjust the Picasso's default
38kHz settings (which t had chosen as appropriate
for my monitor) to more closely reflect the 4 5 -90 Hz
vertical frequencies it can handle, but found I
couldn't change it at all and had to remain with the
default 50-90Hz setting instead.
One very annoying point about PicassoMode is
that a message comes up before it can be run
which warns of the possible dire consequences to
your monitor's well-being, should you change the
settings to ones beyond the scope of your monitor,
but at the same time the only documentation about
PicassoMode is a German text file on disk! Not a
word about it in the manual at all. All of which is
very remiss where a program which could
potentially destroy your monitor is concerned.
One point to note for Amiga 2000 owners with
more than 6Mb of Fast RAM is that the Picasso II
(like the Piccolo-SD64) needs to map its memory
into the 2000's "legal" RAM area as defined by
Commodore. In practice, this means that any Fast
RAM in excess of 6Mb should be disabled.
However, the Picasso's advantage over the SD64
is that any memory installed on an accelerator card
(which can usually be mapped beyond the legal
limits) will still be available. Since Picasso II doesn't
need to use chip RAM there's no need to spend
extra money on a 2Mb chip upgrade solution like
DKB's MegAChip either,
Picasso II is a workmanlike product with few
frills which, in most circumstances, gets the job
done. The inclusion of TVPaint Junior (which is also
bundled with the SD64) and MainActor is a bonus,
but, on the whole, the range of supplied software
isn't exceptional. Picasso II still offers relatively
good value for money but this will no doubt be
quickly eroded by the newer generation of cards
which have recently been starting to appear. ■
Picasso II
The Picasso II is still a good buy, especially for
Amigas without 2Mb of chip memory and AGA
chips, and will be a good workhorse for many DTP,
graphics and 3D applications, but newer cards are
steadily eroding its advantages.
Price; £299,9 5
Supplier: Blittersoft
Contact: 01908 261466
Verdict: 83%
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ShopperRevie
Education
Graeme Sandiford
Graeme
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Educating
Join Graeme Sandiford as he buckles his seat-belt and applies a little vorsch sprung technik, courtesy
of 10 Out Of 10 Educational Systems, to get him through his driving test.
If s been some time since we reviewed
any educational software, so we thought
it's about time we took a look at some
again. This time, I laid my hands on two
promising products from 1 Out Of 1
Educational Systems - German and Driving Test
German
There are plenty of good reasons to learn German
nowadays. For one thing, some of the best
software, especially CD-ROMs, are coming
out of Germany and, if you've got satellite TV,
you can even watch and understand the Space
Rangers TV series (Pro7 at 8.1 5pm, Friday) before
it comes to England.
1 Out Of 1 German is not, unfortunately, a
teach-yourself-German package. Rather, it's meant
to be of use to those of you who are already
studying German GCSE. It comprises six games
that have been designed to reinforce the material
covered in the Modern Languages National
Curriculum. It's intended to help 1 1 to 1 6 year-olds
at Key Stages 3 and 4 for this subject. However, 1
Out Of 1 believe that the material is also
beneficial for children who are 8 years and older. .
Interestingly, the package comes with three
separate sets ot instructions: a Player Guide, a
Parent/Teacher Guide and a German version. The
Player Guide deals mainly with the games
themselves, while the Parent/Teacher Guide
concentrates on the achievement tables.
These enable the parent and the child to
monitor the progress that is being made by
displaying the percentage score for each student
for all of the games they have played. Scores under
50 per cent are marked in red; ones over 50 per
cent, but under 100 per cent, are yellow; and
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scores of 1 00 per cent are in green. Scores can
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you get 1 00 per cent scores in several games.
On running the program, you'll be greeted by
the main menu. This is where you select which
games you wish to play, enter new players and view
the current students' achievement record.
The first game is The Cat which requires quick
reflexes, as well as knowledge of German. In this
game, the name of an object, mainly food, is
displayed on-screen and you must identify it from
one of the many pictures that are scrolling up and
down the screen, If you click on a picture, the cat
obligingly says "Ja" or "Nein" to indicate whether
your answer is correct or not.
Now, Ski Lift is my idea of a fun game. The ski
lift has developed a fault which has resulted in
electrical sparks flying from a pylon, dangerously
close to the lift. A fool-hardy skier is trapped on the
lift and each time you get an answer wrong, he's
propelled closer to the pylon and if you get it right,
he's moved further away. Big let-down here folks -
the skier is not shown being electrocuted, not even
the classic cartoon-skeleton job.
Word Search has you rummaging through
jumbled letters to find several words on a given
theme. This can include topics such as family
members, or pets.
The next game is Partner. Here you try to match
names to pictures. These can be of activities,
places, or things.
The Wall is a variation on the arcade classic
Breakout. You have to use the bat and ball to knock
out bricks that are covering the answers to
questions and then launch a missile at the right
one. This is probably the most challenging of the
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games, as you need a great deal of co-ordination.
The final game is Stones. This tests your
comprehension of sequences, such as days of the
week, or months of the year.
Overall, I thought the coverage of the subject
was quite good. However, I'm not too impressed
with some of the drawings - they can be a bit on
the ambiguous side, I also feel that the games
are a little childish and will have a hard time
retaining the interest of a teenager. Aside from
that, it's basically okay.
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Driving Test
I remember the day of my driving test - the night
before I was praying there would be no ice, despite
the fact it was the middle of summer. I remember
the examiner I had too - a hawk-nosed man with a
cap pulled down low over his eyes.
Although it all turned out okay, I would have
been grateful for a package like 1 Out Of 1
Driving Test, even though I didn't have an Amiga at
the time - then again, the Amiga would have come
in handy too!
As with the German program, Driving Test
gives you a several games to play and to learn from.
Unlike German, the questions are multiple-choice
and, it must be said, most of them are very easy.
This format makes the games more of a side-
point and only useful for encouraging you to answer
more questions so you can get on with your game.
However, the questions are very humourous, which
should aid retention of the answers.
I have to say that I quite like this product, but
since I could never get to actually taking the driving
test, because it kept crashing (the program that is),
although it seemed to worked fine on one of Amiga
Format's machines. ■
10 Out Of 10 Driving Test
Price: £25.95
Supplier: 1 Out Of 10 Software
Contact: 01142 780370
Verdict: 77%
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Graphics
Graeme Sandiford
Mult Layer
Graeme Sandiford reviews MultiLayer, a program that does all the grunt work for you by using ARexx
and your favourite image processor - saving you from the tedium of writing complicated scripts and
wasting hours compositing images manually.
This may come as a shock to many
of you, but there is not a single
graphics program that can do
everything. For example, Lightwave
cannot be used to digitise images,
ADPro cannot render 3D images and Vista Pro
cannot be used to draw pictures. This means
that you'll have to buy several programs to meet
all of your graphics needs. Combining the
output from these different types of software (at
a professional standard) is possible, but is
seldom fun and always time-consuming. This is
when a program like MultiLayer can save you
both time and money.
So how does MultiLayer work? Basically it
uses the abilities of either ImageFX 1 .5 and ADPro
2.5, which are termed as the host programs, to
create image sequences that comprise multiple
layers of images. In effect, MultiLayer does all the
grunt work for you by using ARexx and your
favourite image processor - saving you from the
tedium of writing complicated scripts or wasting
hours, or even whole days, compositing images
manually, Obviously as MultiLayer uses ADPro or
ImageFX, there are two versions of the program -
you'll need to have either of these packages to get
MultiLayer to work. However, you'll also need plenty
of memory and an accelerated machine is definitely
advised - even though the manual has some helpful
suggestions on how to speed things up and
conserve memory.
As most of the hard work is done by the
host program, MultiLayer is relatively tiny in size -
only taking up just under 200K - and is easy to
install. At this point you may be wondering: "if all
the work is being done by a program that I have
already, why should I fork out for another one"?
The Timeline window is where you create layers
and select the current frame.
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This single image is a still from an animation that was composited with MultiLayer.
The main reason is that MultiLayer is a purpose-
built composition tool which has been designed to
give as much control of the process as possible
while making sure the least amount of your time is
spent on a project.
Before I go on to explain how MultiLayer works,
I'd best explain some of the fundamentals of image-
composition - experienced readers may want to
skip this bit. Most image processing programs,
including ADPro and ImageFX, have the ability to
combine images using a couple of different
methods. One of the most commonly used
methods is to use an alpha channel.
An alpha is an image that consists of
different levels of grey. Each level of grey
determines the transparency of the pixels that are
of that intensity - the lower the intensity the more
transparent the pixel is (black is totally transparent
and white is completely opaque). In this way an
alpha channel acts a bit like a stencil, but instead of
cutting holes in the areas you want the underlying
surface to show through, you give them a lower
level of brightness.
MultiLayer also uses a chroma value or range of
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values; this works by making a certain colour or
range of colours in an image transparent. This is
useful when you don't have the luxury of an alpha
channel to work with.
Let's face it
As MultiLayer's chief reason for existence is that it
makes your work easier by enabling you to access
another program's features more easily, then its
most important feature has got to be its Interface.
MultiLayer has opted for a m u It i -win do wed
approach with a total of 1 windows that each
perform a different set of functions.
Although MultiLayer is capable of running on its
own screen, the manual suggests that MultiLayer
and the host program should use Workbench's
screen in order to save chip RAM. This can be a
little cluttered at times, but as windows can be
brought to the front, closed and re-opened easily,
this is not often a problem..
The first window that you will probably use is
the Project window. This is the window that's used
to determine the size of the project and its duration
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Graphic
ShoDDerReview
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in frames. This is also the place where you actually
generate your picture, or sequence of images.
There is also an option to execute an ARexx script
after each frame is completed. This could be used
for anything from deleting a source file as you go, to
alerting you to the fact that the current frame is
finished. It's also possible to enter a brief
description of the project for your own reference.
When you're ready to start compositing, you'll have
the choice of generating a single image, all of them,
or a range of frames.
The Timeline window is the most detailed
window and the one where most of the work is
done. This is the window you'll need to go to in
order to make your layers - I'll explain what layers
are a little later. It also gives you a frame- by-frame,
layer-by- layer overview of your current project. Each
frame in the project is available from a horizontal
bar and each layer that has been defined is
displayed along the left-hand side of the window.
You can make a frame for the current one by
clicking on a box below its number. Similarly, you
can create a new layer by clicking on the button of
a vacant slot. It is also possible to copy, swap, or
erase layers.
The Timeline window is also used for
several time-related functions, For example, it can
shift the starting frame of a layer by either
advancing or delaying its position in the timeline. !f
your layer doesn't fill the number of frames
available, you can make it fit by using a couple
of stretching techniques. The Stretch command
will make the layer fit the number of available
frames by adding frames to the last frame of the
current layer. The Stretch All command makes the
current layer fit by adding frames to all of the
frames in the current layer.
While the Timeline is used for creating and
editing layers in a time-related basis, it's the Info
window which is used to specify which files will
be used to create a layer, A layer can be created
from one or two images, a foreground and an
alpha channel. The layers you create can then
be placed one over the other and the areas that
are transparent, through the use of an alpha
channel or other means, will allow parts of other
layers to show through.
Selecting the foreground and alpha images for
a layer is done by using a file selector. By clicking
on a gadget you can select whether the images for
the layer will be part, a sequence, or just a single
image. You can also choose from several
composition methods, or key types. The best
choice is alpha channels, but you can also choose
image mapping, chroma, luma and using black as
the key colour. This window can also be used to
fade layers in and out and determine the minimum
and maximum levels of transparency.
Another useful window is the Preview
window. As you might expect, this window provides
you with a preview of your composition. The
window is basically a box with several areas
bounded by dotted boxes. The dotted boxes define
a safe action zone - the area of the screen where
you should fit the most import part of your image,
and the safe title zone - which is useful if you are
producing work for TV as any text outside this area
will be distorted,
The Preview Control window is used to control
the position of the layers and select which elements
are showed in the Preview window.
The Input/Output window is used for selecting
the format of the images that are loaded and saved.
Using this window, you can scale images that are
loaded to a certain size, select the render format
and whether the palette should be locked. It can
also be used to determine whether an image
should be displayed, what hardware should be
used to display it and the file format that they
should be saved in,
The System window enables you to set various
systems-related options. This includes a safe save
requester, an auto-save function, auto-naming and
the screen type the program should use.
The final window is the Windows window. This
can be used to bring any of the other windows to
the front of the screen with a touch of a button.
The verdict
Well, there you have it, in as few words as possible,
that's what MultiLayer can do for your image
composition - at least in theory. In reality, things
didn't go quite as smoothly - I had a devil of a time
trying to get the program to work properly at first. It
turned out to be a relatively simple problem; too
many digits in the sequence extensions, but it
would have been helpful if there was a trouble-
shooting section in the manual. But once this
problem was sorted out, everything went okay.
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complicated
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Once up and running correctly. MultiLayer
performed admirably - creating the most
complicated of compositions without even breaking
into a sweat. The program not only automates
composition, it also provides you with greater
possibilities in what you can do. If you buy
MultiLayer, compositing images will never be the
same again. ■
MultiLayer
Price: £99,95
S upplier: Premier Vision
Contact: 0171 721 7050
Verdict: 88%
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£449
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£149
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£299
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£ 49
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£215
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£219
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£169
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June 1995
Issue 50
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Turbotech Clock Cartridge
Your Amiga will always know what day it is
with this handy device - even after
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Turbotedi Clock Cartridge
RRP
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Datastore
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XL144E Fax Modem
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MIDI interface
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Technosound Turbo 2
Like the original
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Vista Pro Lite
This truly amazing fractal landscape program
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ft Sportster USR 14,400 modem with software
and manuals boxed £100. 3.5" IDE 546Mb hard
drive, boxed, new, unused, under full warranty.
£180. W 0342 321 953.
• Understanding Imagine 2 with disc
£15. OCR full version £30.
"3 0243 51 31 77 evenings,
• A1 200 6Mb RAM 66882 40Mhz co-processor
1940 monitor. Star LC20O colour printer with
loads of games, serious software, books, mouse,
joystick, all boxed £700. « 0342 321953.
• Star LO200 colour printer, manual and lead-
Will swap for A500+ compatible hard drive,
preferably with RAM. Or A570 CD-ROM with
CDs. Call Les tS 0484 453341,
ft Miracle keyboard under guarantee , boxed as
new, with song collections one and two, plus
stand: £110. S 0342 321953.
• Amiga 3000/030 MMU and FPU 5SMb hard
disk, 3Mb RAM, flicker fixer, lots of games and
serious software. Cost £1 ,299, sell for only
£550 o.n.o. •& (Southport) 01704 214846.
ft VI Dl Amiga 24 RT video digitiser/frame
grabber with updated software, boxed with
manual, £170. ^ 0131 593 5843, evenings
and weekends.
• Word worth 3.1 (full version} £50. Microdeal
Pro Midi interface £1 0. Or swap both for 4Mb
72-pin SIMM ( lor A4000). Phone Derek on S
01450 3750B1,
ft Philips CMB833 MK2 colour monitor £105.
Power Computing RAM expansion 1 .5Mb for
A500 £29. Curnana ST506 hard disk interface
with 40Mb drive includes 51 2K RAM £39, Oki
Miorcline printer £70. "B 0181 51 S 3896.
ft A 1200 2Mb extra floppy drive plus loads of
pro software and games. £200. Call Rob S
01924 455167.
ft 210Mb 2.5" hard drive with cable, installation
manual and software, £85 0,n.o. IT 01049 5722
5953 or write to: G.Moffat, QM Dept., BMH
Rinteln, BFP0 31.
ft Amiga 4000 +28Mhz Warp Engine £1,100.
340Mb IDE drive £80. Toshiba CD-ROM £90.
CI 960 Multisync monitor £90. Picasso II £130.
VIDI 24RT £50. OHers. All excellent condition.
«■ 01243 552461.
ft Star LC24-1 primer with sheet-feeder and
manual £1 50. Call Hugh on IT 01 81 505 9698.
ft Amiga A3000T (Tower) WB2.1 106Mb HD
18Mb RAM, Commodore 1960 muhisync
monitor. GVP IV-24 Professional true 24-bit
videographics card with component transcoder.
Software £2,000. IT 0171 274 2498.
ft Amiga 500 computer for sale with hard drive.
mouse, joyslick, games, offers invited. Phone
Stewart: Chester tt 01 244 344748.
ft Mitsubishi multisync monitor 14" supports all
Amiga AGA screenmodes and more. £150. Call
Rob IT 01924 455167.
ft GVP 1 230 II accelerator 50Mhz 68030 with
MMU +50Mhl 6 8882 FPU 8Mb of 60ns RAM
onboard. All boxed as new. £400, Call Rob ?r
01924 455167.
ft A500 plus with Philips colour monitor, joystick,
mouse, manuals and software, excellent
condition £200, or exchange plus cash for PC.
•B 01 795 683895. (Sheerness Kent.)
ft VBS video back up, store 1 50 disks to one
tape or back up hard drive VI .5 and V3.0 £30
P+P free. Q 0161 790 0982 for more info.
• Amiga A500+ 2Mb RAM WB2.04 system
disks and manuals £160. GVP Impact HD8+
series II 52Mb Quantum hard drive with 2Mb
Fast RAM £180. « 0113 250 3600 any time.
ft Wordworth 3.17 £20, VIDI Amiga 12 AGA
£40, turbo printer. Professional printer utility £5,
Simon Sorcerer 1 200 game £1 0, Wordworth 2
AGA £10, studio light, HD printer utility £5.
n (after 5pm) 0181 575 8489.
• Final Copy II, manual, extra fonts: £15.
Mastering Amiga Beginners, as new: £10.
Please phone Michael on * 01 17 965 6557.
ft Maxtor 3.5" 540Mb IDE HD £1 10 o.n.o.
Maxtor 2.5" 85 Mb drive £65 o.n.o. IT 01243
527552 after 6pm.
• A400O 040 CPU card to upgrade your 030
£400 o.n.o. IT Jerry 0191 273 3739 after 7pm.
• Supra Fax modem V32 bis. 14400 band.
Includes cable and comma and fax software for
Amiga £100. IT Keith Miles 01223 213 704.
ft Amiga CD32 and SX-1 module wilh 2Mb
Fast RAM and 80Mb HD. Black keyboard for
SX-1. Black mouse. As new. £500 the lot. fi
01682 505 367.
ft Epson Stylus 300 B+W inkjet printer £1 25.
A2091 SCSI interface for Amiga 2000, +2Mb
RAM £100. GVP HD8+ 40Mb HD for Amiga
500 £100. Amiga 2000 motherboard working
£50 IT 01582 505 367.
ft A500+ 2Mb Chip RAM, GVP1 20Mb
hard drive with 4Mb RAM. and Philips 8833 II
stereo monitor £600. Also 3X 1 Mh 30-pin
SIMMS ideal for GVP drives or PC £50.
IT Nick 01279 865 896.
ft Amiga A600 2Mb RAM, 20Mb HD, mouse,
joystick, keyboard cover, software and all leads
£200 o.n.o. Action Replay MK3 for A1 500 brand
new £30. tT Steve, Halifax 01422 249767.
ft Rendale 8802 FMC genlock. Video Director,
extra software £1 20 o.n.o. tt 01 273 464 9B0.
ft Rendale 8802 FMC genlock, excellent results
£95, TV Text Pro Titler £25, Pagesetter 2 £8. All
Amiga and video magazines with disks like new,
£1 each. IT Len 01792 872098.
ft A4000/040 8Mb RAM 120Mb hard drive,
1 942 dual sync monitor wilh built in speakers,
serious software, games, everything you need,
£2,000. IT Jerry 0191 273 3739 eves.
ft Supra SCSI controller card for At 500,
A3000, A4000 complete wilh software and
frame for mounting a hard disk. As new. Only
£45. IT Christian 0117 983 5786 after 6pm.
ft Amiga 1200 boxed, also 500, colour stereo
monitor, ext drive, optical mouse/light pen,
1 50 boxed titles inc: Davpack 3, Ishar 3,
UFO, AMOS, Agony, Eye/Beholder. "B evenings
01956 558024.
ft Wordworth 2 C/W P/driver + manual £25.
Interbase mag/disc + manual £B. The Publisher
mag/disc + manual £9, Lemmings 2 original
packaging, unused £1 0. The lot for £50 inc P+P
or collect. IT 0181 575 7558.
ft JCL Superpic colour digitiser with full
1Mb internal memory. Software and manual.
As new. Cost £530, accept £225. ^ John
01557 330154.
ft Rendale S.VHS/VHS genlock cost £499. As
new. Bargain at £299. B 01 271 870549.
ft A500 A590 hard drive 3Mb RAM Supra 28
accelerator 10845 colour monitor, large amount
business software/games £500, Citizen colour
24-pin printer £1 50, or all for only £600. Free
joystick, excellent condition. IT 01392 264 741.
ft Star FR10 colour 9-pin do! matrix printer with
automatic single sheet feeder, professional model
with quiet mode and well sound-proofed case
£80. ■B Nick 0249 448 054 (answer machine),
ft Amitek 2Mb RAM board, new £1 30, accept
£85 or swap for 4Mb or even 2Mb PCMCIA
card for Amiga 1200. Phone Ian on 5T 01925
491 1 73 .Warrington. Cheshire,
ft Amiga 500 plus external hard drive A590,
extra RAM, additional software, Scala. Kindwords
3 etc. £400 Rendale A3B02 video genlock £75.
■B 01792 402 939.
ft Western Digital 60Mb 2.5" IDE internal hard
disk drive with cables and mountings. Boxed
£50 o.n.o. TT 01987 572 988.
ft A500 1 Mb mouse, manuals, games, etc.
£125. Plus mags, games, programs (all original)
50p 10 £7. TT 01836 374894.
ft Amiga eOO WB2.1 1 Mb RAM with lots of
serious software, games, mouse, manuals, etc.
inc. PPaint, DPaint 3, Scala, Imagine, and more:
£1 65 o.n.o. IT Sean 01959 561 651 .
ft Imagine 3.0, original disks and manual, just
£85. includes postage, A2A, converts postscript
fonts to colour fonts, great for video, includes 52
postscript lonts £30. IT 01298 22862.
ft A1 200 2Mb plus 170Mb hard drive, external
floppy drive, joystick, many games, all boxed
£450 o.n.o. Also VIDI 24RT digitiser for A1 200
£70 o.n.o. "B Neil 01 803 324 625.
ft Lightwave TUT videos full set originals £120
inc postage. 5T Norman: 0191 4873457.
ft A1500 6Mb RAM, 52Mb hard disk, 25Mhz
accelerator, filter fixer, co-processor, Panasonic
1381 i monitor with warranty, optical mouse,
StarJet SJ48 inkjet printer, serious and games
software, £550 o.n.o. S 01622 75 B 200.
ft CDTV complete with matching keyboard disk
drive and mouse, also Weird Science network
CD and Parnet cable. £180 o.n.o. ■B
Wolverhampton 01 902 846 41 8.
ft Star 24-200-colour dot matrix 24-pin printer
wilh 32K printer butler, all manuals and lead.
Good condition £1 25 o.n.o. IT 01 71 207 3836.
ft Upgrade your A4O00/O30 with a Commodore
A3640 card, 25Mhz 68040 CPU as fitted to
A4000/040 £360. "B Barry Winter, Denmark
010 45 98 183 564.
ft Amiga 3000 Tower System in perfect
condition, ideal for expansion. For sale at only
£450 o.n.o. "B Croflon, nr. Wakefield BB2 063.
ft Panasonic MX12 video effects mixer boxed in
mint condition for quick sale, only £850 o.n.o. "B
Sean 0151 356 1623 or Ray 0151 355 7956.
ft Imagine 3.0, complete package just £65.
Amiga B200O, WB2.04, 1 Mb chip, 4Mb
RAM, £1 90. A2A, converts postscript fonts to
colour fonts, 52 postscript fonts included, £25.
■B 01 298 22882.
ft A500+ 250Mb Conor hard drive in Alfa IDE
HDD controller with extra 2Mb RAM built in.
£300 o.n.o. IT Derby 01332 831 297.
ft Amiga 1 500. 2Mb RAM. Twin floppy drives.
WB2.05 manuals, master disks, mouse, joystick,
platinum 'works' manual and disks, excellent
condition: £199. Buyer collects. ^ Denis,
Croydon 081 668 3950.
ft 60Mb hard drive Western Digital plus cable.
Amiga shopper 53
ShopperReader ads
June 1995
Issue 50
Workbench 3.0 and lots of progs already
installed if needed. Six months old. £50 o.n.o.
•B 01 13 263 6974 anytime.
• Flicker fixer Microway Amiga 1 500 A2000,
swap for GVP SCSI controller 32-bil or £100
cash. IT Doug 01 B27 71 2560.
• A3000 25Mh/ 52Mt>HD without monitor and
keyhoard £150. Also A600 20Mb HD plus
software, games, joystick. Everything boxed with
instructions, as new. All for only £1 SO. ^ 01 81
455 6557.
• A1 200 SOMhz 030, FPU, MM II,
10Mb RAM, 420Mb HD, extra (loppy. Epson
GTSoOO scanner with AdPro Driver as new.
Uprated PSU. £1,350 No offers but may split.
0753 526602.
• A1 200 85Mb HDD, Roctel genlock and
external drive. Philips colour slereo monitor,
Brother printer, joystick, all manuals, boxes and
leads, Vista Lite, Wordworth, Pagesetter,
Technosound Turbo, Mortal Knrnbat etc. £590
o.n.o. Q 0161 480 4446.
• L4020 video option card for A2000-A4000 3
composite 1 SVHS and 1 TV output. Only £50.
Call Paul IT 0181 789 6513.
• Amiga 1600, 3Mb RAM, 62 Mb Quantom
SCSI HD with QVP HC8+ SCSI controller,
Workbench 3.0 plus software. Boxed, complete,
£300 ono. O 01 222 233362 and ask for Justin.
• 1 6Hb 72-pin SIMM for MBX 1 200Z £385,
400dpi hand scanner £80. Phone Bob, room T3
after Bprn on •& 01 896 232208.
• GVP HD8+ SCSI controller and 120Mb SCSI
HD for A500VA500+. Comes with 4Mb RAM
and enables use of Workbench 3.0 {installed),
£250. Call n 01222 233362 and ask for Justin.
• GVP 1Mb 1 6-bit SIMMS, suitable for
HC8/H D8, £1 5 each. Call IT 1 222 233362
and ask for Justin.
• Microway Flicker Fiirer, suitable for afl Big
Box Amigas, £50. Call H 01222 233362 and
ask for Justin.
• Star SJ-144 includes manual, ribbon and
driver. Six months old. Cost £300, will sell for
£200. Canon SJ-200, includes manual and
driver. Cost £280, will sell for £1 60. Call
TT 01382 452268.
Wanted
• I want a RAM external expansion tor A500.
Send me your offers. I will pay £20 per Mb. Jose
Manuel MunoH Bou; C/Carbs Southou 15, 3o. ?■
1 2540 Villarreal; Castellon; Spain.
• HP 500 Deskjet power supply. TO Hugh on
Oiai 605 9698.
• English manual for V-Lab motion, buy or
borrow. Also A4G00 contacts wanted with
interest in desktop video and raylracing, TO Mike
01 51 593 5843 (Barking) after 7pm,
• C compiler and Commodore Includes wanted,
limited funds- Also Amiga contacts wanted,
Stafford area, is there anyone out there? Call
Peter anytime on TO 01785 228988.
• Help does anyone own a Dataflyer 500 hard
drive copy ol Auto Install disk. Call Andy on TO
01924 610389 anytime,
ft Helm multimedia program and manual.
Original software onry. Price please to
TO 0113 250 3600.
• Help! SCSI controller for 500+. Perhaps
GVP unit without HD, or Zorro stot interface.
Can build from circuit diagrams.
TO Julian 01422 346 237
ft Micro Professor by Acer. Will pay reasonable
price for working model. Phone Dave after 8pm
weekdays TO 01 202 748 376.
• Please can anyone supply a colour picture of.
an Afghan hound lor Phologenics, Brilliance- etc.
Wanted lor sentimental reasons by OAR TO
01 226 299 70E anytime.
• GVP 4Mb RAM for A1230 II. £100: Will be
paid in cash. TO 1 7 1 274 8 209.
• Amiga 4000 030 with 4Mb and S0Mb+ hard
drive. Willing, to pay up to £1,000. Contact David
on TO 0181 947 1384 after 6pm, or 27
Arterbeny Road, London SW20 8AF.
• Amiga books on C, DOS, Assembler, Blitz
and AMOS programming. Also any reference
books or ROM kernels considered. It you have
any for sale TO Alex Ol 349 662 021 .
ft A4000 contacl Antonio Alberto; Rue Freitas
Gazul 1 6-2o-ESC: 1350 Lisboa; Portugal; or call
evenings TO 395 1336.
• Wanted 030 accelerator and RAM for At 200
in straight swap with Sega Mega Drive and
seven games. Must be able to collect/bring to
LLanelli area.lt 01554 751531.
• SIMMS wanted Four 4Mb 32-bit 72-pin for
Amiga 4000. Must be perfect. £300 paid for the
four. TO 01 71 834 3586.
ft ProPage4.1. Anyone have discs/manual for
sale, dealer with old copy on shelf?
TO 01993 776234,
• SCSI 2 interface for A4000, Prefer Fast line
Z3, but would consider others. Fair price paid.
Phone TO 01263 722169. Ask for Richard.
ft Manual for A600 wanted. Will pay cost and
postage. TO 0141 884 3934.
• CD-ROM drive wanted (A 1200). Write to:
Hamid Taqui h House SS, Room 33, Castle Irwell,
Cromwell Road, Salford, Lanes M6 6DB. Please
include phone no. Will pay good price.
• A3640 card, 25Mhz 6840 CPU reasonable
price. TO Gary 01049 5722 5953 or write to;
BMM Rintein. QM Dept, BFPO 31.
• Users wanted for new NFA BBS. Call TO
01 162 661 610 or Node 2 on IT 01162 375
147 or Node 3 on IT 01162 461 66B. All
speeds welcome 8pm-8am.
ft I have recently started my own PD company
and am looking for customers. Send first class
stamp for free list to; PD+, 1 Wesley St.,
Bodedem, Anglesey, Gwynedd LL65 3TD,
• Anybody who owns a Picasso 24-bit board. I
need some info. Really urgent. Please call Gavin
ontT 01723 353136.
• Wanted Hawk 2Mb RAM expansion plus co-
processor for A1 200. Vincent Dirnech 7/3 St.
Michael Street, Senglea, Malta, Call TO 690105.
ft 1MB or 2Mb 33-bit 72-pin SIMMS (Not GVP
type). Call TO 01635 866669 after 7pm.
• Multisync colour stereo monitor for A1 200.
Must display ALL modes, including Lo-Res
games. Also Understanding Imagine 2,0
book. Also 4Mb 72-pin 32-bit SIMM tor
Microbotics expansion. Call Darren anytime
TO 01 792 361 902.
• A4000 68040 processor card. Will pay
around £200. Can include 68030 board with
68882 FPU in with cash if required. Phone TO
01263 514806. After 5pm, Ask for Kris.
• CDTV add-ons, memory, hard drive.
Trackball, Joystick Interface, Infra-red mouse,
also hardcard/drive/memory for 2000 2.0
ROM and Swapper, GVP hard drive for 500
contacts also wanted C64 and Amiga.
TO01705 833 943.
• I will swap IM.30 with manual and Sculpt 4D.
With same for Aladdin 4D, must be as bought.
Telephone Mac TO 01469 576487 after 4.30 or
work TO 01469 577088.
• GVP HD8+ or A530 for the A500+,
Can pay between £140 to £200.
Call TO 0260 227630 [North West) only
call from 5pm lo 6pm weekdays.
ft A4000 - anything considered. Phone
TO01926612848.
Personal
ft Dedicated 3D animator seeks employment in
a studio environment with four years professional
experience in video production, sound
knowledge of Light Wave, Real 3D, Imagine,
Image FX and AD-Pro. TO 017S5 5457S.
ft Wanted hardcore Amiga &. PC programmers in
C or C++. Also wanted graphic artists and
modellers DPaint, LighlWave, Imagine,
Real 3D. TO 01 61 590 4572 (Raj)
London-based prefered,
• A lonely Amiga is looking for Amiga
friends, so please write soon. Contact Aaron
Waidle, 52 Ranclirfe Crescent, Braunstone,
Leicester. LE3 1 NO.
ft Wanted: graphic artists, LightWave or
equivalent to work with a newly-formed team in
games production. We are also looking for
programmers, no industry experience required.
TO 0181 590 4572. Hurry,
ft PD swappers wanted, British or otherwise. I
have a large collection. Please send me your list
and 1 will send mine. Paul Wheeler, 1 Fairfield
Road, Staithas, Saltburn, Cleveland, England.
ft Programmers and graphic artists. Is your
work up to commercial standards, but you can't
get a break? Contact Nic-k on TO 01633
450292 and leave a message. I can help!
ft 68000 Assembly programmer needed to join
amateur software developers. Must be of high
standards with ambitions of becoming full-time
developers. Write to; Rob, 16 Willbert Road,
Arnold, Nottingham NG5 8 ED.
ft Will pay scanner owner to turn B/W line
drawing into files to use A1200 (IFF) in DTP/art
progs. Tel 2-01159780202.
ft Graphic artists require programmer/a for
producing PD/shareware games. Can work from
home or with us. Interested, contact James
Becker at Cellar 4. Call TO 01 933 56368.
Fanzines/BBSs
ft Pilgrims BBS. TO 1 752 366939 fipm-Sam
weekdays. 24hrs weekends.
ft Impact BBS. TO 01584 S75200 10pm-
7.30am Fri/Sat nights.
ft The War Horse BBS. TO 01472 28001 S -
24hrs a day, every day.
ft Sliver BBS! Contact Mat Tillett TO 01502
714 663.
ft The Power Plant BBS. Contact Neat
Postlewaite, Fidonet 2:250/214. Modem 01 229
431 590.
ft Teri Odin BBS. Contact Derek Scott TO
01450 373 323/373 071.
ft Dens Den BBS. Contact Ihe official UK trans-
Amiga test site on TO 01702 464 818.
ft Crsepys Amiga BBS. Contact David
Lascelles TO 01 91 386 9177 (10am-7pm).
ft Colchester BBS. Contact Mark Barrett
[SysOp}TO01206 365 082.
ft Ethos BBS. Contacl Steve Bell TO 01924
437 258.
ft The Toaster BBS. Contact Peter Critcnley TO
01992 583 584.
ft Avenger BBS. Contacl Jason Brown TO
01507 566318.
ft Off-line BBS (disk-based BBS). Contact
Steven Fulton, PO Box 9502, Johnstone,
Renfrenshire, PA6 7EW.
ft The Attic BBS. Contact Qbidiah SysOp TO
01472 280 018.1
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experts. Toby Simpson is our expert code clinician.
Gary Whiteley is an expert on video applications and
graphics. Larry Hickmott is a new member of the gang
and a word processing expert. Finally, we've got a man you can rely on
when it comes to operating systems programming and music making on
your Amiga - Paul Overaa. Relax, your problems will be taken care of.
Fontastic offer
I would like to reply to Pete
Scott's letter in issue 48 of
Amiga Shopper, enquiring about
a book showing samples of fonts
suitable for Final Writer. Being
a keen user of Final Writer and requiring a lot
of fonts, I recently purchased Weird Science's
Fonts CD-ROM.
From this, I used the PostScript Type 1
fonts and to make life easier, I typed out a
complete listing of these PostScript fonts in
alphabetical order.
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Public Domain, my printed listing may be of
interest to Pete or any other Amiga Shopper
reader. It can be used as a reference source for
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Answers contents
If you are looking for a solution to a
particular problem, why not try using
this handy index to the questions in
this
issue. It's arranged by topic, so if you
are being kept awake at night by a
noisy hard drive, then be on the look
out for any mention of hard disks.
Fonts
61
61
Workbench 3.1
MKI monitor
62
OctaMED
62
62
62
Hard drive
Workbench window in C
Lightwave
62
Putting slider gadgets into
window borders (FAQ)
65
Word worth
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Digitising
Scala
Software installation
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PAL TV
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Thanks for the offer Fran. I'm sure many Amiga
Shopper readers will find your handy work very
useful. I took one look at the many thousands
of fonts on the CD in question and decided that
mowing the lawn would be more fun.
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Power to you for spending the time to do it.
I'd also like to put the record straight about a
booh I wrote last year called 'Fonts & Clip Art'
which was mentioned in the answer to Pete
Scott's letter.
Having been collecting fonts for a few years
now, I wrote 'Fonts & Clip Art' to not only be a
reference-source for almost 100 fonts and
almost as much clip art, but also to help Amiga-
owners understand more about the font formats
available and what programs use what format.
Anyone wanting to know more about Fonts
& Clip Art can ring me on * 01908 370230.
Although using fonts may appear to be pretty
easy, I found otherwise when I was researching
the book 'The Wordworth Companion ' from
Future Publishing.
Taking the PD Compugraphic fonts on the
Weird Science CD as an example, I found that
the results from different programs that use
Compugraphic fonts varied enormously. In
Pro Page for example, J had missing characters,
or, worse, system crashes resulting from using a
few of these fonts, but when I used them with
Wordworth 3.1, I had no problems at all.
Those of you with Final Writer and Final
Copy II may also like to know that Softwood
Europe have a number of NitnbusQ volumes
available that come with booklets showing each
of the fonts in detail.
These fonts not only print better than the PD
Type Is, they also render quicker on-screen,
which is why they cost a fair bit more than the
PD variety. Contact Softwood Europe on
=■ 01 773 836 781 and ask about Soft Faces for
Final Writer and Final Copy II. Lurry
Workbench 3.1
I am thinking of buying
Workbench 3. 1 for my A500. If I
did this would I still be able to use
Final Copy II? Also, does 3.1 have
CrossDOS and a printer driver that
can be used for a Citizen Swift 9 printer?
Martin Brown
Penrith, Cumbria
Final Copy II works perfectly well with
Workbench 3.0, so you should have no problems
whatsoever running it under 3. 1. The CrossDOS
is supplied (it's now an integral part of the
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Graeme Sandiford
Amiga's system software) as are all the standard.
printer drivers! Paul
CM8833 MKI monitor
lead wanted
I'm thinking about buying an
Amiga 1 200 and I recently bought
a second-hand Philips 8833 Mkl
monitor. I was wondering how I
could connect the Amiga to this
monitor, since I have only seen adverts for
Philips 8833 Mkll leads. Could you tell me
where I could get a Mkl lead and how much it
would cost?
John Manton
Belfast
/ called Trilogic about this since I know that
they provide leads for most monitors, but,
unfortunately, they only do a lead for the
CMS833 Mkll (which differs from the CM8833
Mkl in that if has a 9-pin D connector instead
ofaSCART socket).
But I had an ace up my sleeve - Meedmore
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call gave me all the information I needed,
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Way, Netherton, Merseyside, L30 4XL.
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OctaMED
Can you connect two Amigas with
a null modem cable to use eight
high-quality tracks in OctaMED,
or do you need two MIDI
interfaces and a MIDT link?
What are the best, cheap, small speakers
with a decent bass output for my Amiga? Why
is it that the synthetic sounds used by OctaMED
are only available in four-channel mode - is it
an OctaMED, or an Amiga limitation?
Also OctaMED crashes when I switch from
the OctaMED screen to my 1 6-colour
Workbench screen. The music still plays, but
no joy with either the mouse, or the keys. Is
this a bug in OctaMED, or Intuition?
I also have problems with running out of
tracks in OctaMED, Should T buy another A500
as a slave device, or is it better to invest in "
MIDI and, if so, is it better to get a rack unit
rather than a synth with a keyboard? Please
note that I have limited funds!
Claude lie Hand -Allen
London
MIDI uses conventional serial communications
and so it is perfectly possible to connect two
Amigas together directly, rather than using two
MIDI interfaces. Because there is no
handshaking to worry about, you can, providing
you're happy with a soldering iron, easily knock
up a three-connection serial lead (using data
pins 2 and 3 and earth pin 7) to do the job.
Having said that, I think that, since you are
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obviously interested in Amiga music-
applications, you'd be far better off going down
the MIDI-road, rather than buying another
Amiga and linking them. For starters, you want
to get a keyboard synth rather than a rack-
mounted MIDI sound-module, because you'll
■ need the keyboard for entering MIDI data!
As far as cheap speakers are concerned, my
personal opinion is that none of the cheap
multi-media speaker/amp systems that you can
get are particidarly good - almost all, however,
will provide a better sound than you are getting
from your existing monitor. The ZiFi
Professionals from Eversham Micros are a little
sturdier than most and have reasonable (but. not
brilliant) bass response, but, needless to say, they
are rather more expensive!
OctaMED Synthetic Sounds limitation
incidentally is due to the fact that the current 8-
channel mixing routine handles samples in quite
large chunks (up to 400 bytes) which makes it
unsuitable for very short waveforms like the
synth samples.
Also, as there is no individual channel
volume-control, it would be impossible to
handle the synthsound-envelope without
disturbing another channel. One of the additions
to the forthcoming OctaMED Soundstudio will
be a shared mixing-library that should overcome
this problem.
Not too sure about your OctaMED crash
problem - it might be due to your system
running low on memory! Paul
Hard drive mystery
Certain applications (namely
D Paint, ClariSSA and Imagine)
will not ran from my
PROGRAMS: partition of my hard
disk (172Mb IBM model) when it
is formatted as a FFS partition. However, on
reformatting it as an OFS partition and
reinstalling the offending software, I found I
could get them to work. Why could this be?
Stephen Cronfn
Harrier Simulator Flight,
RAF Laarbruch
This sounds like a case of the MaxTransfer
rate for your HD PROGRAMS: partition being
too high. Check your MaxTransfer entry for the
partition's Mountlist -you should find it in
Devs: - which will probably read something
like OxFFFFFF.
First make a safety copy of your Mountlist
entry (in case something goes wrong) and then
use a text editor to remove a couple of Fs,
leaving OxFFFF. Reformat your partition
with FFS and try again. I know people who've
had similar probletns and reducing the
MaxTransfer rate has solved them. Let's hope it
works for you too. Gary
Baffling C
I have a few C programming
questions I would like answered:
1. How do I create a window
with scroll gadgets in the right
and bottom borders? I want to
make it look like the Workbench window. I
June 1995
have scoured the V3.0 includes for a particular
OpenWindowTags() lag for this, but I cannot
find one.
2. How do you create the colourwheel and
gradient slider gadgets?
.3. I am currently attempting to write a
very simple IFF-ILBM file-viewer and I want to
know how to display these files in a window. I
am familiar with iffparse. library, and can read
IFF files pro perl j', but I cannot display them.
I am using the registered version of DICE
given away with Cliff Ramshaw's "Complete
Amiga C". [Ed's note - Sadly folks, this book is
now out of print]
Gordon Humphrey
Tillydrone, Aberdeen
1. Easy peasy, thanks to the FAQ on page 65
entitled "Putting slider gadgets into window
borders". This shows a DICE C program which
uses BOOPSI to create Workbench look-a-like
scroll gadgets in window borders.
2. The same way as the border slider
gadgets. I recommend you get the Libraries
ROM Kernel Manual, Edition 3: ISBN 0-201-
56774-1. This costs about £30 and is worth its
weight in gold. It explains BOOPSI in a form
which is almost understandable. If you are
baffled by Object Orientated Programming
at all, stay tuned, there'll be a couple of articles
on it in a few months' time as part of the C
programming tutorial. We'll introduce BOOPSI
with DICE then.
3. The bad news is that I don't have the
space to print a listing for this also. The good
news is that it isn't that hard. The Libraries
RKM book (see answer to point 2) explains
all you need to know about placing bitmaps
into windows and on to screens. Look at the
relevant chapters to get an idea of what to do.
Another alternative is to decode the 1LBM file
into an area of memory as separate planes and
then use Dra.wlmage() in Intuition.library to
display it. Toby
Lightwave
requirements?
With all (he fuss over Light Wave
recently, it seems that many
reviews omit to specify the
minimum requirements to operate
this program. How much HD
space does it take and what are the minimum
RAM requirements?
Andrew Jones
Wrexham
I just checked my review of LightWave 3.5
standalone in Amiga Shopper 43 and, strangely
enough, on page 15 there's a paragraph headed
"Requirements", which goes on to say (and !
quote) that LightWave requires "...any Amiga
(except the A1000) with at least 8Mb of RAM
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Recommended extras are a 24-bit display card
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Frequently asked questions
Toby Simpson
Putting slider gadgets
into window borders
This is one of the two most common
questions about C programming that I
receive. It concerns placing scroller
gadgets into window borders. If you are
not sure what this means, open a couple of
windows from your Workbench by clicking
on drive icons. You'll note that all the
windows opened have a scroll gadget in the
right and bottom borders. Creating these,
and making sure they look just like their
Workbench counterparts, is a conceptual
leap for most Amiga programmers as it
involves delving into BOOPSI.
BOOPSI is the Amiga's Intuition libraries
answer to Object Orientated Programming.
Don't worry about what this means, as we'll
talk about it in future Amiga Shoppers. From
our particular point of view, it means that we
can "clone" gadgets straight out of the library
of goodies which Workbench uses and put
them in our own window borders. By using
the same techniques, you can utilise the
colourwheel and gradient gadget which the
Workbench 3.0 palette preferences uses.
This listing shows you how to use
BOOPSI to put slider gadgets into both
borders. Using the Libraries RKM, it should
be easy for you to add arrow gadgets yourself
by creating instances of the appropriate
sysiclass images. It has been compiled and
tested using DICE C version 3.0, as given away
on the AS47 Coverdisk 1 . It will compile with
no changes under SAS/C also. Next month,
we'll look at another Frequently Asked
Question: "How do f receive keyboard input to
a window I have opened?" Toby
Window with scroller
bars in the borders
***** *************
** Window with scroller bars in the
borders .
** By Toby Sinpson, For Amiga Shopper
Answers
**
** Save as "scroller. c" and compile under
DICE using:
** dec scroller. c -o scroller. x
*/
♦include <stdio.h>
# inc lude <exec / exec . h>
♦include <incuition/intuition.h>
♦include <intuition/gadgetclass .h>
♦include <intuition/imageclass.h>
♦include <intuition/icclass.h>
♦include <clib/exec_protos.h>
♦include <clib/intuition_protos.h>
♦define wrNDC«_WIDrH 6<S0
♦define WINDOVLHEIGHT 200
struct Window *sc_window = NULL;
struct Gadget *bottom_slider = null,
*right_slider - NULL;
void main (void)
{
struct
BOOL
FALSE;
/*
IntuiMessage
quit
*ntsg;
Open our window:
*/
if (3(sc_window = OpenWindcwTags (NULL,
WA_Left, 0,
WA_Top, 0,
WA_Width, 640,
WA_Height, 200,
WA_MinWidth, 100,
WA_MinHeight, 100,
WA_Clos eGadget , TRUE ,
WAJTitle,
"Scrollers in borders using BOOPSI!",
WA_DragBar, TRUE,
WA_DepthGadget , TRUE,
WA_SizeBRight , . TRUE,
/* This reserves space on right for
scroller */
WA_SizeBBottom, TRUE,
/* This reserves space at bottom for
scroller */
WA_SizeGadget, TROE,
WA_IDCMP,
IDCHP_CLOSEWIHDOW I
IDCMP_IDCMPUPrjATE ,
WA_SmartRe fresh, TRUE,
WA_RMBTrap, TRUE,
TAG_DONE)))
{
print f ( " Sorry ,
couldn n t open window. \n " ) ;
return;
}
/*
** Create gadgets:
*/
if [right_slider = (struct Gadget
* ) NewQb j ec t ( null , ■ propgc lass " ,
GA_ID, 0,
/* Our Gadget ID */
PGA_Freedam, FREEVERT,
PGA_NewLook, TRUE,
PGA_Borderless, TRUE,
PGAJTop, 0,
PGA_visible, 5,
PGA_Total, 10,
GA_RelRight, -sc_window-
>BorderRight + 5 ,
GA_Top, sc_window-?BorderTop + 1,
GA_width, sc_window->EorderRight
8,
GA_RelHeight, - sc_window-
>BorderTop - sc_window->BorderBottom - 2,
ICA_TARGET, ICTARGET_IDCMP,
TAG_END) )
{
if (bottoni_slider =
(struct Gadget * ) NewQbrj ect (NULL,
"propgclass",
GA_ID, 1,
/* Our Gadget id */
PGA_Freedcm,
FREEHORIZ,
PGAJNewLcok,
TRUE,
PGA_Borderles s ,
TRUE,
PGAJTop, 0,
PGA_Visible, 5,
FGA_Totai, 10,
GA_Left,
sc_window->BorderLeft ,
GA_RelBottom, -
sc_window->BorderBottom + 3,
GA_RelWidth, -
sc_window->BorderLeft - sc_window-
>BorderRight - 2,
GA_Height,
sc_window->BorderBottom - 4 ,
GA_previous ,
right_slider,
ICA_TARGET,
ICTARGET_IDCMP,
TAG_END) )
Add them to our window:
AddGList (sc_window, right_slider, -1, -1,
NULL) ;
RefreshGList (right_slider, sc_window, NULL,
-1);
while
printf("All done!\n");
liquid
{
WaitPort(sc_window->UserPort) ;
while (msg = (struct IntuiMessage
* ) GetMsg ( sc_window->UserPort ) )
t
if <msg->Class == IDCMP.CLOSEWINDOW)
quit = TRUE;
ReplyMsgl (struct Message *) msg);
)
** All done, close window and exit :
Closewindow(sc_window) ;
/*
** Eliminate BOOPSI gadgets:
*/
if |right_slider)
Di sposeOb j ect (right_slider) ;
if (bottciTLSlider)
DisposeObject (bottorm_slider) ;
return ;
}
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65 ► Now that I've been using LW for some time,
I'd go even further and recommend 10Mb or
more of RAM, especially if you're into bitmap
texturing on a grand scale. As for hard drive
capacities, most seasoned users know that there
is no optimum size of hard drive - however big
they are, they always fill up! But, to give you a
ballpark figure, based on how much drive space
my LightWave directory and image store take up,
I'd say that nothing less than 0.5GB (i.e. over
500Mb) of hard drive would really be a sensible
option if you plan on saving a lot of objects,
bitmaps and rendered images.
Remember that a 24-bit PAL overscan
(768 x 576 pixel) image can easily eat up 1Mb of
disk space alone. Then calculate how many
frames you wish to save (where 1, 500 frames
= 1 minute of 25 frames/second animation) and
you'll soon come to the conclusion that there is
no hard and fast answer as to how big a hard
drive should be.
Incidentally, I see that RAmiga state in their
advert (p28, AS49) that LightWave 3.5 requires
2Mb of chip RAM. As far as I know (and
confirmed by both Premier Vision and the
LightWave manuals) this is not true. Whilst I
accept that 2Mb of chip RAM is useful, and the
DKB MegAChip is good (I've got one in my
A2000), might it fust be possible that RAmiga
are trying to sell MegAChips off the back of
LightWave? Gary
The troublesome
Printer, device
I have been running and printing
with Wordworth for the last three
months. Now suddenly the
program refuses to print and
displays "cannot open printer
device" on the screen. This happens whenever
Print or Print Setup are selected from the
Project menu. I am also unable to print
pictures from Workbench using Multiview.
I am, however, able to print from
PageStream, which has its own printer drivers.
My printer is listed in the Devs/Printer drawer
of Workbench and selected in the Prefs/Printer
program. I have also tried selecting Generic as
my printer, but with no success.
1 would also like a solution to a problem
with the VMM program. I find that the Amiga
crashes every time the Save, Use, or Cancel
buttons are pressed on the Prefs Window. Why
should this be? I am not clear as to how much
of the available software for the 1200 can be
used with VMM and, if not the majority, is
VMM a worthwhile proposition?
1 would be grateful for a solution to the
above problems and any further information
you can supply to me on VMM.
K Boyce
Kent
Because the information you gave me was a
little on the light side, I'm going to have to take
a stab in the dark as to what the problem is
with your Amiga.
It sounds similar to one I came across
recently while working on 'The Wordworth
Issue 50
Companion ' book. In order to come up with
some tips and hints for the book, I went about
creating Wordworth-related problems, so I could
then solve them and report these in the book.
One of these problems was the result of saving
the Digita Print Manager driver as the default
When I did this, whenever I went to print, I got
the message "cannot open printer device".
The reason for this is because the Digita
Print Manager driver is only meant to be
selected from Wordworth and not the Printer
Prefs program. So check this first and make
sure the printer driver you have selected in
Printer Prefs is not one of the drivers belonging
to Wordworth and Digita Print Manager.
Another step you can take to help solve this,
is to reinstall Workbench - it sounds like it
could be related to something that has been
done to Wordworth, because, as vou say, it
used to work. You won't do any harm by
reinstalling Workbench, as long as you make
sure you back up your Startup-sequence and
User-startup before you install Workbench over
the top of the old one.
When everything is working, back up your
system, so, if this printing problem ever happens
again, you can reinstall Workbench from a copy
you know works. Just make sure that you copy
your back-ups of the Startup-sequence and
User-startup back into the S directoty, since
these will contain important assign commands
for programs on your Amiga.
As for your other problem with VMM,
having spoken to Power Computing to confirm
the specification for your board, the problem
could well stem from the fact that it's quite
possible your 030 chip is an EC version, which
means you won't have the necessary MMU to
run VMM.
To check this, take the board out and have a
look at the 030 chip. If you can see the letters
'EC on the 68030 chip, then it doesn't have an
MMU and therefore will not work with VMM.
You may also be getting the words FPU and
MMU mixed up. FPU (Floating Pointing Unit)
is a completely different animal front the MMU
(Memory Management Unit).
It also appears from the specifications that
you gave me for your board, that you don't have
any Fast RAM. Tliis means your board is actually
slowing down your machine and not speeding it
up, because there is no 32-bit Fast RAM for your
Amiga to use. Even by adding a single megabyte
of Fast RAM, you will notice a marked
improvement in the speed of your Amiga.
If in doubt about this, or your MMU,
contact Power Computing (tt 01234 273000)
and they can put you right as to what 68030
chip you have and abo sell you some of that all
important Fast RAM. Larry
Present yourself
I have quite a lot of slides and
photographs which I have taken
over the years and which I now
wish to digitise to my Amiga 1 200,
tidy up in Deluxe Paint, put into
some sort of sequence and then copy to video.
I have the necessary gear for digitising
(camera, Vidi-Amiga 12, slide-copier) but what
I am lacking is a decent slideshow program
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with flashy wipes and fades. I have tried
numerous PD -offerings, but none have been
without their own problems (non-AGA,
mouse/busy pointer showing, glitches, etc.).
The best one I've tried so far has been Viewtek,
but I can't set the script file to give each
picture its own time and/or effect - it just
shows (at random) the whole pie's directory at
a specified time of, say, five seconds each.
I have been told that Scala is exactly
what I need, but there are five versions
currently being advertised ranging from £50 to
£250. Could you please tell me which version
would be most suitable for my needs? My hard
disk is only 60Mb and I have no extra RAM
fitted (yet).
Kevin Golightly
Annfield Plain, Co. Durham
/ agree that Scala would most probably be
your best bet, but, before you even think about
it, I'd suggest that you add at least 2Mb of
extra memory to your A1200, because the kind
of presentation which you're suggesting will
require plenty of memory overhead once Scala
has loaded - especially if you're planning on
getting the best picture quality and size out of
your digitiser.
For instance, if you want fullscreen grabs
(which would obviously mean cropping your
photos and slides to fit their 35mm aspect ratio
on to a video screen) in HAM-S, you're looking
at some pretty large amounts of data. Whilst
Scala can toad sequentially from hard drive, you
will still need at least two images to be in
memory at any time to be able to wipe, or do
other fancy transitions between them. So tip 1 is
to add more memory. A faster CPU and maths
co-processor (FPU) wouldn't hurt either, but I'd
guess that your wallet might not like it much.
As for which version of Scala to choose,
you'll obviously need one which can handle AG A
graphics (otherwise why have an AG A Amiga?),
which rules out everything but Scala MM300
(RRP £249) and the latest release MM400
(£299), both of which may well cost more than
you 'd like to spend. I know that MM300 will do
the job, and do it well, but you'll need at least
3Mb RAM to run it.
As for PD-altematives, I've been trying to
think of something which might do what you
need, but I can't. Good as it is, Viewtek can 't do
wipes, only sequential displays, with one fixed
display time for each image, which explains your
unsuccessful attempts to modify the script file.
The "random" display you speak of may simply
be caused by the time it takes to load an image
before it is displayed.
I suppose the main problem here is that
you're trying to push your A 1 200 to limits
beyond which it is currently capable. A less
ambitious approach might be worth
considering, such as putting together a simple
slideshow animation of your images in Deluxe
Paint and then playing it back to video. OK, it's
a compromise and you won't get all those flash
effects, but we're talking a good few hundred
pounds to get the results yoti want - and, at the
end of the day, you've got to ask yourself if the
outcome justifies the expenditure.
In the meanwhile, you could always cut out
all the trouble of digitising the images and just
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67 y crop them with your camera and slide copier
and go straight to video, using the Amiga (and a
genlock, if you have one) to add titles and
graphics where necessary. Gary
Software installation
H3T
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P*»JTlt
Software
I am new to the Amiga and am
already experiencing problems
when using programs that use an
installer script. I follow the
instructions and then, after
selecting a destination (usually RAM), the
installer tries to write to the disk 1 am
unloading from. What am 1 doing wrong?
Mai com Bagley
Dudley, West Midlands
Commercial installer scripts do vary a tot, but
programs that use the official Commodore
installer guidelines are usually relatively trouble-
free. Some installation procedures, found with
various magazine Coverdisks, however, do
occasionally give problems - I suspect that it is
these sorts of de-archiving installations, where
you just create a temporary RAM-based
installation to test a piece of software, that you
are talking about.
It is difficult to be sure without knowing
what disks you are having problems with, but
my gut-feeling is that you've not read the
installation-notes properly and fust need to drag
the appropriate archive drawer to the RAM disk
and then unpack that copy of the program by
double-clicking on the install icon in the RAM
disk. If this is the case, then you'd use the same
approach when doing a permanent, i.e. hard
disk, installation. Paul
Narrator device
I use a speech -synthesis program
that needs the Narrator device. It
works fine on my A500
Workbench 1.3, but refused to
work on my A4000. I've searched
through the devs: directory, but there was no
such device. Is this normal?
Now I'm using the WB 1 .3 Narrator device
on the A4000, but there's a problem - if I
execute the speech synthesis program, then
the FKey Commodity doesn't work. Does the
WB 2.0 have a Narrator device which solves
this problem?
Ignacio Garcia Cuadrado
Madrid, Spain
The Narrator device is no longer supported by
Commodore and is not supplied with
Workbench 3 - this is why you weren't able to
find it in your Amiga 4000's system software.
The WB 1.3 device, as you already discovered,
does work, but I've not been able to find any
details of Commodity- type snags or work-arounds,
A whole load of changes were made to
the Narrator device with Release 2 and,
since the Commodities exchange library was
part of the Release 2 system software, there is a
good chance that this later version of the
Narrator device does eliminate the FKey snags
you've encountered.
Unfortunately I've not been able to check
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this, so all I can suggest is that you get hold of a
copy of the Release 2 software and try it out. Paul
Wobbly TV displays
I use a PAL TV with my Amiga 600
and most of the time everything
works satisfactorily for me. But
when using the HelmLite program
supplied with AS48, 1 find the
screen to be wavering and the small print in
the menus to be almost unreadable. I have had
a similar experience with a PD disk (Star Trek
TNG) which originated in the USA. My other
programs and games are OK.
I have found that when creating a new
HelmLite book and altering the resolution (to
PAL high-res) the reproduction is better,
but trying this with the HelmLite Bookshelf
means I lose some of the screen. Is the
problem in using the TV as a monitor? I have
no room for an RGB monitor and the TV is the
one we use for everything. If so, I shall just
have to put up with it!
I am, as you may have guessed, new to the
Amiga, but find it a fascinating machine.
Another problem I'm having is that when
trying to use the Read Me file on HelmLite, I
keep getting a message saying 'Unable to
open your tool SYS;Utilities/AmigaGuide',
leaving me unable to read the file. Since I don't
appear to have AmigaGuide on my WB2 disk, I
have tried using WB1.3, but also to no avail.
Do I need another disk or program? I have
tried to read other files, vvilh similar
unsuccessful results.
Paul Waterworth
Halifax
It looks like you'll be grinning and bearing the
wavering screen Paul, because, as you've
correctly guessed, the problem is primarily to do
with using your TV as a monitor. Specifically,
the wavering is due to the fact that Helmlite's
main demo-display is in HighRes Interlace,
though not all of the other screens are, and these
should not flicker quite so badly, as you've found
out by making a high-res page. Nevertheless,
text-displays on TVs are never going to be as
good as those on an RGB monitor, so, as you
say, you'll just have to put up with it.
As far as your AmigaGuide problem goes,
the message means that the Helm.guide file is
looking for a program called AmigaGuide, which
it expects to find in your SYS:Utilities drawer. If
(or when) it finds it, AmigaGuide then displays
the Helm.guide file to your Amiga-screen and
you can interactively click your way around it.
The trouble, as you've discovered, is that
AmigaGuide is neither on the Shopper disks, nor
supplied with Workbench 2,1. Although your
idea of trying WBI.3 is commendable,
AmigaGuide didn't actually appear until after
WB2, so I'm not surprised you didn't find it.
However, if you've got Amiga Shopper 49, you'll
find a program called PPGuide in the C: directory
ofCoverdisk 2 and you can use this instead of
AmigaGuide to display the Helm.guide file.
To read your Helm.guide file, you need to do
a couple of things. The first is to copy PPGuide
from the AS49 disk to your HelmLite disk. Then
you need to edit the Helm.guide file's icon to
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Q&A
ShopperAnswers
make it use PPGuide instead of AmigaGuide. To
do this, dick once on the Helm.guide icon and
then press the tight Amiga key and the I key
simultaneously, or, alternatively, use the pull-
down Workbench menus and select Information
under Icons.
A new window will appear and there will be
a line of text marked Default Tool in the middle
of it wh ich says "S YS: Ut iliti.es/ A m iga Gu ide ".
Assuming that your Helm disk is still called
HelmLite, you need to change this line to read
HelmLite:PPGuide and then click the Save
button to make the change permanent. Next
time you double-click the Helm.guide icon
PPGuide will be called to display the file.
A simpler method is to first select the
Helm.guide icon whilst holding down a shift key
on the keyboard and then to double-click on the
PPGuide icon (whilst still keeping the shift key
down). PPGuide will then display the .guide fde.
Either method is OK, but in the long run editing
the file icon ensures that you need only tell the
file which tool to use once and it will then
appear every time without hassle. If you really
want AmigaGuide, you can obtain it through PD
sources or, if you have a modem, from many
BBS archives. Gary
It's a small world
run
tab,
Software
I'm having a problem with
creating my latest animated jaw-
dropper using Imagine 3.0.
I'm currently trying to do a
fast render in Trace mode, but
when I do so Imagine loads the scene-objects
as usual, docs some initialisation and then
chokes on its own vomit and tells me that the
"World Octvolume is too large".
I've searched through Imagine's less-than-
perfect manual and found absolutely nothing
regarding this message. I've even tried
experimenting with the Octree volume settings
in Imagine's Preferences, but none of this
solves the problem.
I've been using Imagine for almost two
years and never seen anything like this before.
I'm really at a loss - I'm so excited about
getting this animation done that I'm really,
really going to need your help.
I've put a copy of the whole project on disk
for you to examine, so here's (desperately)
hoping that you can find a solution.
Jonathan McBrien
Huddersfield
Don't you just love Imagine? Although there's no
denying that it is a very powerful 3D program
which can still outdo LightWave in some areas,
it's problems like yours (and coupled with the
lack of explanation in the manual) which leave
you pulling out your hair.
Once I'd got your project up and running
(isn't it about time Imagine stopped using hard-
coded object paths?) it took me some time to
figure out what the problem was. You obviously
don't have any shortage of memory, hard drive,
or processing-speed with your souped-up Amiga
1200, so the problem had to lie elsewhere.
After proving I could get the same problems
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you described, I started looking at your objects,
first in the Detail Editor and then in the Stage
Editor. When I saw the huge physical sizes of
your skyscrapers in the Stage Editor, I perked
up, suspecting that for some reason they were
too large for Imagine to handle, even though you
had Imagine's Global Size parameter set to 0,0,0
- a well-known trick forgetting the world to fit'
properly. So I took out the skyscrapers and, lo
and behold, no more error message! But no
skyscrapers either...
After reloading the scene into the Stage
Editor, I resized everything to 1/1 0th of its initial
size. Of course, I ended up with objects all in the
wrong places, but after moving litem back to
where they should be and checking that the
layout looked reasonable, 1 found that everything
rendered without problems. So the answer is
that somehow you've overstretched, the Global
automatic world size settings and Imagine is
telling you that your objects are partially outside
its known universe and hence can't be rendered.
If I can offer you a tip - before you resize all
your objects in Stage - why not group some of
them together into their final positions, using
the Detail Editor? Not only will this make them
easier to position en masse when you come to
laying them out in Stage, they'll also re-scale
more consistently.
One last point - 1 tried to E-mail you with
an early answer (to save you waiting for this
issue, of Amiga Shopper), but your personal
address (j.p. mcbrien @. .... J failed, altho ugh yo ur
host address responded that, it was alive and well
when I 'pinged' it on the Internet. Gary ■
AS50
Agnus chip (if known)
Extra drive #1 (3.5 in/5 .25 in) as DF : Manufacturer
Extra drive #2 (3.5 in/5 .25 in) as DF : Manufacturer
Hard disk: Mb as DH : Manufacturer
Extra RAM fitted - type, size in Mb and manufacturer
Address:
Please indicate details of any other hardware which could help us to
answer your question:
Your machine
_ A500
_ A120Q
IZ A4000
Approximate age of machine
Post code
1 A500 Plus
D A1500
A600
□ A2000
_ A1000
□ A3000
Kickstart version (displayed at the "insert Workbench" prompt)
1.2 D1.3 CD2.X Da.x
Workbench revision (written on the Workbench disk)
□ 1.2 □ 1.3 □ 1.3.2 □ 2.04/2.05
□ 2.1 □ 3.0
PCB revision (if known). Do not take your machine apart just to look
for this!
Total memory fitted (see AVAIL in Shell for Workbench 1.3)
Chip memory available (see AVAIL in Shell)
Now, use this space to describe your problem, including as much
relevant information as possible. Please continue on a separate
sheet if necessary.
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ShopperTutorial
J~lmage processing
Graeme Sandiford
r^^ I i ■ Part 3
Photogenics
"You get a very
nice, distorted,
surreal, dreamy
effect with shading
and refraction."
Photogenics' DisptaceMap painimode can be
extremely useful for creating distortions.
72
Graeme Sandiford continues his popular series of Photogenics
tutorials by examining different ways of using Photogenics' excellent
range of paintmodes.
Hello again! I'm afraid it's time
for some apologies - last
issue a couple of goofs were
made, one by me and the
other by the printers. The
printers became a little confused last issue
and printed the tutorial pages on bog-roll,
or a very similar surface. My mistake was
saving the Coverdisk images at too low a
JPEG quality setting.
Right apologies aside, in this instalment
we're going to be examining different ways
of using Photogenics' excellent range of
paintmodes. In particular, we'll be seeing
how the modes can be used in
conjunction with each other. We'll be
using the loaders as well and although
some of them are not supplied with
the Coverdisk version of Photogenics,
I'll try to suggest alternatives.
The first project we're going to do
is to create a wood or metal texture, using the
whitenoise loader, motionblur, antique and
balance. The first step is to use the whitenoise
loader to open a window 320x256. If you are
using the Coverdisk version, you'll need to
create a white window, use the add dust
paintmode and then apply the contrast mode
to sharpen it up a bit. The results won't be as
clear or detailed as with the whitenoise loader,
but should work reasonably well. Next, apply
the motion blur at a 90 degree angle with a
pixel length of about 20. To make it look more
like wood, apply the antique mode. To make it
look like metal, use the balance mode to add a
bit of blue and lighten the surface slightly.
This wild and wacky image was created using ■
technique described by Paul Nolan.
June 1995
The next effect we're going to create will be
a simple shape with a glow around its edges.
First, create or load a simple shape (on a
black background with white paint) - even
a circle or square will do. Next, clone it and
make it the secondary image. Give the
secondary image a big Gaussian blur
(radius 12) - this will take a long time.
Return to the original image, clone it,
copy the clone to the alpha and then use the
technique in the first exercise to give it a
texture. Make sure its edges are smooth
and then change the secondary
image's colour, using the balance
mode - a nice bright red will do.
Reselect the original image and then
apply the rubmix with the difference
option set and there you have it - a
glowing logo.
This next exercise was related to me from
Paul Nolan, the creator of Photogenics, 'via CIX
and is incredibly simple and can yet produce
amazing results:
"Draw a 'doodle' with a large low pressure
airbrush (320x256 black image, white paint,
size 60, pressure 4 per cent); just random
splodges will be fine. Fix, and make that image
the secondary. Apply BrightMap at 50 per cent
trans to the main image, then apply
DisplaceMap with normal trans. You get a very
nice, distorted, surreal, dreamy effect with
shading and refraction."
Thanks, Paul! That's all for this month, but,
since this is such a mammoth subject, we will
be examining a few more uses for Photogenics'
different paintmodes next issue. ■
Even more tutorials
This is the third of seven tutorials where we'll
be covering most of Photogenics' features.
Some of the techniques that we will discuss in
the tutorials listed below are equally
applicable to other similar packages.
1. Alpha channels
2. Text effects
3. Filter effects (part 1)
4. Filter effects (part 2)
5. Image composition
6. Image retouching
7. Drawing techniques
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Draw a 'doodle' with a large low pressure airbrush. Fix, and make
that image the secondary.
Apply BrlghtMap at 50 per cent trans to the main image, then apply
DisplaceMap with normal trans.
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Shop periarterial
Assembler
Toby Simpson
A I |Part9
Assembler
All the basics of Assembly language programming have now been covered and it's finally time for Toby
Simpson to start applying some of these techniques to slightly more useful applications. Watch this space!
I was arguing wilh someone recently
about the point of Assembly
language. I found myself defending
and attacking it at the same time. In
this modern age, with powerful
computers backed up to the teeth with
memory, hard drives and complex video
hardware, the case for programming
anything at all in Assembly language is
becoming rather thin.
You see, not only does an equivalent
program in C take a tiny fraction of
the time to write, it is also a lot less
likely to contain bugs and can quite
easily be ported to another computer.
And the performance results are not too
bad either. With this in mind one wonders
what the point of Assembly language actually
is these days.
Well, there are two major advantages
you're gaining by making the effort to learn it.
One is that it is an unparalleled opportunity to
learn about how your computer works and
what it does inside all those chips. This
knowledge will help you in all aspects of
using your computer. The other is that should
you ever need the additional speed or control
which Assembly language offers, you have the
ability to use it.
We have now covered all the basics, an
introduction to what it is all about, the
68000 instruction set and gradually we've
moved on to more complex subjects, such
as random number generation and
displaying results on the screen. This
month we're going to start applying
some of these techniques to more
useful applications.
The more alert of the followers of
this course out there will have observed
that I have got through the entire Grst
paragraph without mentioning lotteries even
once. Sadly, we're not about to let the subject
rest just yet either.
Our lottery program is an absolutely
ideal test-bed for showing how you can use
Assembly language to open windows and
display information inside them. It is
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it working. On all of these, the close gadgets didn't work.
74 ArWGASHGPPER
June 1995
don't 'C
if you don't, you should. Not everyone wants
to learn C. However, on the Amiga, your
ability to understand the documentation Is
Impaired if you can't at least read C. This Is no
hardship, as it Is not a particularly difficult
language to learn.
It's a difficult language to learn well, but
not to just learn. And if your sole reason for
learning is to help your understanding of the
Rom Kernel Manuals, or Autodoc files, then
you certainly don't need to learn it well. I
recommend the C programming bible:
The C Programming Language, Second
Edition. ISBN 0-13-1 10362-8.
it weighs in at a hefty £30, I'm afraid, but
it is worth its weight in gold. It was written by
the original designers of the C language and it
is neat, concise and well organised.
really no harder than in any other language,
only a little more long-winded.
The Amiga's Operating System is mostly
written in C. What is more, it is designed to be
used by C programmers. All of the functions
and operations are only officially documented
for C programmers. Budding Assembly
language users out there can be most
perplexed by Commodores official
documentation: The Rom Kernel Manuals.
See boxout titled "I don't 'C'" for a little
lecture on the merits of learning to at least
read C. We've already used library functions
to show text in Shell windows. Let us re-cap
what we know:
• The functions in the Amiga's Operating
System are grouped by function into libraries.
The graphics library contains drawing tools,
for example.
• In order to use a function in a
library, the library must be opened first.
When the program is finished with the library,
it should be closed. Opening a library gives
the program a magic number called the
library base which is required to call any
functions inside it.
• The exec, library (which contains the
functions to open and close other libraries)
is always open. The exec. libraries base is
stored at memory location $04. This is the only
memory location inside the Amiga which
should be accessed directly. (Except for
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Assembler
hardware registers, which we'll meet in a
couple of months time.)
• When calling a library function, the
library base value must be in the A6 register in
order to make it work.
To help prevent us from making
unfortunate mistakes when it comes to putting
library base values into A6, we enlisted the
help of macros, such as this one to access
functions inside the dos.library:
DOS: macro
movel Dos Base, &6
jsr _LVD\l(a6)
; dos.library access macro
endm
We could now write the dos.library function
"OutputQ" like this:
DOS
Output
The Autodoc files (see boxout on page 76) tell
us what registers are used to specify
parameters and which contain results for each
function present in the Amiga. The only catch
is that this information is often specified in C
style notation.
Take exhibit A, OpenWindowTagList in
intuition.library. It is this function which
allows us to open windows. This is its
lunclion prototype:
struct Window * OpenWindowTagList ( struct
NewWindow *, struct Tag Item * );
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Function what? Prototype? If you're a C
programmer, you'll be OK with that. If
you're not, re-read the boxout on page 74, if
you have not done so already, and then sit back
for a brief explanation.
A function prototype is used by C
programmers to specify what parameters a
function takes, if any, and if any result is
returned by it and if so, what type it is. This
way, the C compiler can spot any times when
you have attempted to call that function
incorrectly. This is a great idea - it makes it
harder to screw up.
Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury in
Assembly language, so we just have to take
more care. However, being able to read these
prototypes is essential knowledge, otherwise
the Autodocs, and all of Commodore's books
will remain a mystery.
Let's go through it one step at a time. Our
function is called OpenWindowTagList.
Everything to the right of the function name in
brackets describes the parameters it takes:
struct NewWindow *, struct Tagltem
There are two here. They are
separated with commas. Read the * as
meaning "a pointer to something". This
is the easiest way to make sense of it in
Assembly language.
By a pointer to something, we just
mean the address of an area of memory. We
could use the LEA instruction to point to it,
for example. The little struct word tells us
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Kickstarts
The listing in this month's Assembler course will
not work unless you have at least Kick start 2.04.
Before the 1.3 owners amongst you angrily
start crying: "That's unfair, I'll write in and
complain!", stop and think. If you are using 1.2 or
1.3, you have a version of the Operating System
that was written in 1986. This means that it is
nine years old.
Nine years ago you could still buy
Spectrum s and flmstrad 464s back then. PCs
had 286 chips and Microsoft Windows 3 was still a
glint in the milkman's eyes. The Berlin-wall was
still up and Russia was the USSR. Yes, it's a long,
long time ago.
If you use your Amiga for anything serious,
you ought to upgrade. Upgrading to 2.64 is a
painless and cheap affair. The only problem you
may have is a few games not working. To get
around this, you could use a Kicks tart switcher, to
keep your old 1.3 ROM as well.
Your best bet, though, if you can scrape
up enough pennies is to get Kickstart 3.1 and
marvel at what a decade's worth of development
has achieved.
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If.
that this is a pointer to a specially organised
area of memory.
The little bit left over in-between the struct
and the * tells us how this memory is
formatted. In the case of this function, we need
to provide a pointer to a NewWindow structure
and a Tagltem structure. When the function
returns, it has one result, which again, is a
pointer to a specially formatted area of
memory called a Window.
This is all very well, but what does it mean
in Assembly language terms? It is actually
quite straightforward. The first parameter,
NewWindow, goes into AO. This is normally
NULL. The second parameter is a pointer to
something called a tag list. This pointer goes in
Al . So what is a tag list?
The Amiga's OS programmers were faced
with a problem when it came to doing
Kickstart 2 for the first time. This was
that they were adding stacks of new
features to almost every facet of the
Operating System and how do you
fit this in to existing structures? The
old Kickstart 1.3 method of opening a
window involved filling out a
newwindow structure, for example.
With Kickstart 2.04, there was no way of
specifying some of these new features in this
June 1995
old structure. Tags are the answer. A tag is
simply two long words of memory. One
specifies what the tag is and the second is the
data for it.
The end of a tag list is marked by a
special lag called "TAG_DONE" or "TAG_END".
The values for these are defined using
EQUs in the include file "utility/tagitem.i". The
idea is, that you get to specify just the
information you need to without having any
redundant information.
And what is more, in the future, new tags
can be added which will simply be ignored by
previous versions of the OS. Let's look at a
small tag list then:
This is our openwindow taglist
WindowTags :
del
del
del
del
del
del
del
del
del WA__width,400
WA_.Height.100
WA_CloseGadget . TRUE
WA_S i zeGadge t , TRUE
WA_DepthGadget , TRUE
WA_DragBar , TRUE
WA_Ti tie, wtJWindowTit le
WA_IKMP, IDCMP_CLOSEWINDCW
TAG_DONE
This is the actual tag-list from this months
listing which we use to open a window.
The joy of tag lists is that you can specify
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so little to make an action happen. Since we
are not specifying complex structures of dc.bs
and dews, there is also little chance of it going
horribly wrong. We're specifying a window,
400 by 100 pixels, with a close gadget, a sizing
gadget, a depth gadget, a drag bar, a window
title and, finally, we're asking to hear about the
special intuition message
IDCMP.CLOSEWINDOW - which is sent to us
every time the user clicks on our window's
close gadget.
To open this window in Assembly
language, we now only have to do this:
; Now open our window ....
suba.l aO.aO
; Really quick way of clearing an address
register (Subtract it from itself!)
lea WindowTags [pc) , al
IOT OpenWindcw/TagList
move .1 dO , WindowPt r
beq ST_Failed_Win ;
Couldn 1 t open window
We store the result we get back somewhere
safe. This is our "magic number" and it allows
us to specify which window we're talking
about when we ask for things to be done, like
placing text inside it for example. If this was
zero, the window didn't open, so we jump to
an error handling routine.
Note the usage of the INT macro to access
intuition, library functions. This is similar to
our SYS and DOS macros from previous
months' programs, INT is defined like this:
INT: macro
move .1 I ntBase , a 6
jsr _LVO\l(a6)
; intuition, library access macro
endm
Having opened our window, our lottery
program will carry on as normal until we
would have previously displayed the results in
the Shell window. Instead, we're now going to
make use of an Intuition function called
PrintlText. PrintlText is a nice, easy way of
putting text information inside windows. It
takes four parameters.
The first is the window's RastPort (in A0).
When you open a window, a RastPort is
created for it. This contains all the
information the Operating System needs to
know in order to correctly draw any
information into that window.
The second parameter is a pointer to a
IText structure (goes in Al), which contains
amongst other things, the text we're going to
show. Finally, we specify how many pixels
across and down from the window top left we
want the text to be shown (DO and Dl }. Here is
how it is called inside the lottery program:
down .
Now show lottery guesses in our window
move . 1 WindowPtr
aO
move.l
wd_RPort(aO),aO
lea
WindowText (pc) r al
moveq
#30, dO
; Pixels
movcq
#30, di
; Pixels
INT
PrintlText
We're committing a bit of a crime here; we're
76 AlMGASHOPPBt
not paying any attention to how big the font
which the user has chosen is.
Indeed, we've cheated big time by ensuring
that the window is sufficiently large to avoid
any problems. If, however, you pop into your
font's preferences and change your system
font, to, say, Topaz, 100 point and re-run the
program, you'll see the catch.
This sort of programming is bad news and
we'll look into how to solve it correctly by
checking on the font size first next month.
Finally, having shown the numbers inside our
window, we need to wait until the Close
Gadget is pressed.
The procedure for this is nice and easy.
Every window opened has a special message
port. When the user performs a specific action,
like moving the window, or closing it, then a
message is sent to this port.
You simply wait for messages
and process them accordingly.
There are stacks of these
messages ranging from "A disk
has just been inserted" to "The
user pressed a key". The
messages you wish to actually
receive must be specified. We do
this with the WAJDCMP tag in our
OpenWindowTagList tag list. The only one we
wish to hear about is
IDCMPJXOSEWINDOW. A break-down of
the procedure to process messages is;
1. Wait for a message to arrive at our port.
2. Get the message. If its value is zero, go
to step 1 . (0 means no more messages.)
3. Identify and process the message.
4. Reply to the message (essential!).
5. Go to step 2 (i.e., keep getting messages
until they're all done).
. _„_ Finally wait for user to click on
close gadget ....
ST_Wait_Close : move . 1 WindowPtr , aO
move . 1 wd_UserPort {aO ) , aO
SYS WaitPort ; Wait for
message to arrive. . ,
j — — Loop through and process any messages
present ....
ST_MoreMsgs: move. 1 WindowPtr, aO
move . 1 wd_UserPort ( aO ) , aO
SYS GetMsg
Get message
tst . 1 do
beq . s ST_Wait_Close
That's it, no more messages
— ■- Got one, process it ....
move.l d0,al
move . 1 im_Class (al) , do
emp .1 #i KMP_CLOSEWINDOW , d0
beq.s ST_Guit
The close gadget pressed
Yes!
Reply to
SYS
bra.s
ReplyMsg
ST_Wait_Close
; Close libraries and exit: ....
ST_Quit: SYS ReplyMsg ; Ensure it
replied to
ig it, then a \
Autodocs
The Autodocs are the single most important
piece of technical documentation on the
Amiga you could have. They describe In detail
every function in all of the Amiga's libraries.
Each function's operation, parameters and
results are discussed.
As a particular bonus, this information
also tells Assembly language programmers
which registers to use. The Autodocs are
available in one of two forms. The first is as a
printed book. This is available from large
bookshops, hopefully, and costs about £25,
For the same money, give or take, you can
have this information electronically Instead
(and a whole lot more besides), in the form of
the Amiga Developers Toolkit 3.1.
You can then read the autodocs through
the point and click Interface of AmigaGuide, or
by using your favourite editor.
1995
You can see the distinct parts in our
breakdown in the code above.
Firstly, we get the address of
our message port which is
inside the Window structure
returned to us when we opened
our window with
OpenWindowTagList. Then we call
the exec. library WaitPort () to wait
for a message.
Then we use GetMsg to receive it,
remembering to go back to step 1
(WaitPort) if there are no more messages. Then
we get the message class, which is the IDCMP
type, out of the message structure returned to
us from GetMsgQ. We check to see if it is
IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW and, if so, we go to
ST_Quit where we reply to the message and
then quit the program.
Strictly speaking, since we are only
expecting one message, we don't need all this
code, as any message received would be a
IDCMP^CLOSEWINDOW as it is the only one
we specified when opening the window.
However, this is good practice, because it
makes it easy to add processing for more
messages in the future.
We've done a couple of other bits to tidy up
the program as well. One of these is Leading
Zero Suppression in our decimal output
routine. Past versions of the program would
represent the number 3 as 00003. Obviously,
this is messy.
The solution is to ignore all zeros until
we've come across a non-zero number. We do
this in ShowDecimal5() by setting a flag to
TRUE at the beginning. This flag is set to
FALSE as soon as we come to a non-zero
number. In the meanwhile, if the flag is TRUE
and the current number is zero, we ignore it.
Neat eh? Have a look at the listing on
Coverdisk 2 to see exactly how it has been
done. We've also had to modify this function so
that it no longer shows the number in the Shell
window, but stores it in memory so that we can
show it with PrintlText.
Other than that, the only other new bit is
the opening and closing of intuition.library.
Next month we'll add a gadget to the window
we can click for "Another Guess" and fix the
font-related problem.
Until then, happy coding and the full
listing for our lottery program is on the
Coverdisk. Good luck, I've yet to win a penny.
After this we'll write a program to rob a bank
and see if that is more successful. ■
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ShoDDerTutorial
DICE
Toby Simpson
Part2
After giving away a special version of DICE on our AS47 Coverdisk, Toby Simpson continues his tutorial on
how to fully get to grips with it This month he organises the program to prepare you for truly grand work.
Cis a unique programming
language. It is easy to learn,
but it is very hard to learn
well and this is the big
problem. Pretty much
everyone can grasp calling functions such
as printfO to show "hello world" on the
screen. When it comes to pointers,
structures and the other conceptual
nightmares, things get hard.
Over the past year or so we've slowly
introduced all of these in our C programming
course and explained our way through each
with examples. Indeed, between us, we should
be pretty good C programmers now. That,
however, is not quite enough.
We've learnt how to write small programs -
programs which consist of one source file {i.e.
one .c file). This file will perhaps include the
odd Amiga Operating System include- file, but,
other than that, it is one enclosed file. This is
not how we write large programs. If you end
up with one single source-file for a large
application, you've gone horribly wrong.
Not only will you have the overhead of
loading a massive source- file into a text-editor
every time you change something, but you'll
actually have to remember where everything is
and, to top it all, when you make a change - no
matter how small - you have to compile the
whole lot again. This, believe me, is a
nightmare. We're using Amigas, not
supercomputers, and compiling a 300,000 line
program is going to take time.
The trick is to split your source files into
many smaller files, each containing a certain
group of functions. For example, you may have
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Having just selected "Scan" from the "Edit" menu,
VMake has gone off and found all our -c and ,h files
for us to create our project.
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one '.c' file which contains all the GUI
(Graphic User Interface) functions and one
which contains file access code. This way, by
breaking things down into smaller elements, is
not only going to make any given thing easier
to find, but, should you change something, you
only need to compile the changed files, which
invariably is a lot less hassle than compiling
the entire program again.
This is where DICE VMake walks on to the
scene. If you have 1 5 source files, how on earth
do you know which ones need re-compiling?
And, what is more, just think of the hassle
trying to compile each one separately - they
would have to be linked. This is a job for a
program and that program is called a "make
utility". Make utilities are very common; their
roots lie firmly in the UNIX Operating System.
A make utility looks at the datestamps of each
file to work out which ones have changed since
the last compilation and then compiles them.
It has a work-file called a "makefile" that
tells it which files require which other files. It's
all quite clever, but a total pain to sort out.
Makefiles are the work of the devil - it takes
hours to get a complicated one working and
then it misbehaves and surprises the willies out
of yoi 1 . Compilers over the years have tried to
make this process easier. SAS C 6.0 and above,
for example, came with an icon -based project-
making system which did away with makefiles.
This is far from flawless, though, and is prone
to not compiling programs which it should do.
Up until DICE 3.0, DICE was supplied
with a dodgy program called DMake. It was
one of those "glucd-together" things that never
entirely worked, but just about did the job.
With DICE 3, a visual project management-
syslem has been introduced, which is very
June 1995
powerful indeed, although a bit hard to get to
grips with initially.
In this month's DICE C course, we're going
to get to grips with this VMake program and
break our file-finder application down into
more manageable and sensible chunks.
VMake is an extremely powerful and
configurable program, as we'll learn over the
next couple of months. You can change its
entire appearance using ARexx. (Stay tuned for
an ARexx tutorial in the next issue.) This
month, we're going to touch on a few of the
basic operations of VMake and get our Finder
program sorted out and compiling at the press
of a button. First, let's plan how we're going to
slice our program up.
The Finder program we've been writing
since Christmas is not a large application. It
"would certainly benefit from splitting into four
main C files and one header file. These would
be as follows:
main.c - This contains our mainQ function.
event.c - The Event Handler. This is the main
function which deals with receiving and
processing messages.
gui.c - This file contains the graphic user
interface functions, for opening and closing
windows and the creation of gadgets.
search.c - The searching routines themselves.
Listing 1 -
** $Id: externals, h
** External variables : Amiga Shopper
Finder Application.
** By Toby Simpson
*/
extern long f iles_jftatched;
extern struct Gadget *first_gadget,
*context_gadget, *previous_gadget;
extern struct Gadget *sg_Search,
*sg_r/rawer;
extern struct Gadget
*gadget_list[TOTAL_GM)GETS] ;
extern struct Window *finder_vdndow;
extern char *button_text [] ;
extern struct List find_list;
extern struct Msgport *arexx_port;
extern char *arexx_commands[J ;
/* END OF FILE */
Issue 50
Toby Simpson
DICE
ShopperTutorial
Our header file could be called "finder.h"
and would contain all the #defines which are
needed for the program. Quite how you
organise this break-down is a very personal
thing. People do it in different ways and to
different degrees. We'll go with this at the
moment and introduce some other possible
approaches in a future issue of Amiga Shopper
(Get a subscription, so you don't miss it).
Sitting around chopping these things up is
a bit of a tedious job. Ideally, we would have
thought of this when we started and set out on
the right track, rather than putting everything
in one file, but you learn from your mistakes! I
would seriously recommend that if you are
starting a major application yourself- or even
a smaller one that may grow - that you plan
this file break-down out before you start
Writing any code. You will save yourself a lot of
grief later on.
To make this job less enjoyable for you, the
split-up files are not on this months Coverdisk.
We'll follow the tutorial through and split up
the files which are on the Coverdisk (the full
listing) and end up with the full DICE C
VMake project.
Splitting up into files
Get yourself armed with a text-editor. Now,
using judicious use of copy and paste to the
clipboard, separate functions into the
following files, Don't copy any of the ffinclude
lines, or any of our global variables, or
prototypes - just functions.
main.c - Copy all the global variable
definitions, and the two functions main() and
cleanexitQ to main.c. Don't copy any of our
#defines or #includes, though!
event, c - Easy one. Copy the entire
EventLoopO function across to this file.
search.c - Copy the SearchDirQ and
GUI_Find() across to this file. Both of these are
search-specific functions, so they go here.
gui.c - Copy NotifyFindO, ClearGUI_List{),
OpenGUK), CloseGUIf) and
ShowErrorRequesterO across to gui.c.
Right, now you should only have the
includes and #deflnes left. Chop out the tide
and save this as "finder.h". This file includes
everything we need and makes all the #de fines.
Now, add the following line to the start of each
of the four ".c" files:
#include "finder.h"
This will ensure that all the defines are made,
and the includes are all brought in correctly.
Finally, when you're sure you've accounted
for every function, delete "finder.c" - you don't
need this any more. Now we need to create an
all-new file called "extemals.h". The problem
we have now, is that all our global variables are
defined in "main.c". The other three files can't
see any of these and this will cause
compilation errors. The solution is to tell the
other files that the variables exist. For
example, our files' matched counter is defined
in main.c like this:
long files_matched
/* Total files found */
= Or
)btaining DICEversion 3
On the March Coverdisk 1, we gave away a special
version of DICE 3. Obviously, the authors of DICE
wouldn't make much money if we gave away the
whole product, so it was especially cut down. It
has the following limitations:
• You can't use bitfields or floating point.
• The maximum executable program size is 40K.
• Each source-file can only have up to 4 functions
in it
• You can't use this version of DICE to generate
commercial applications, or for work purposes. It
is for the private home- usage by Amiga Shopper
readers only.
If you're getting into this now and fancy the
entire product together with a 450 page manual
(which is hard reading, but most excellent all the
same), then you can obtain it from the UK
Distributors Forth Level Developments, who can
Issue 50
If we added the following statement to the
start of the other three ".c" files, then they
could also "see" the variable:
extern long filesjnatched;
What we've done, is to say that external to this
file is a long variable called files^matched. It is
a pain to add potentially hundreds of extents
to the start of each file, so we can pile the
whole lot into one include-file called
"extemals.h" and then include that at the
beginning of "search.c", "gui.c" and "event.c".
This file is easy to create. Copy and paste
out all the globals, then add extents to the start
of each and remove any default definitions
applied. The full listing for extemals.h is
shown as listing 1 on page 78.
When you've done this, it's time to alter a
couple of lines. Firstly, remove this line from
finder.h:
#define FINDEK-VERSION
■Finder 1.05 (27.02.95) ■
Now change this line in main.c...
char *version
= "\0SVER: "FINDEFLVERSION;
char
* VERS ION STR
VERSTAG;
You'll see why in a sec. We no longer have to
bother keeping track of version numbers
ourselves - VMake does this for us. Since we've
had to change this string-name from char
Astonishingly enough, it worked. But it certainly
did take a few attempts.
June 1995
be contacted by post, fax, phone, or E-mail:
Fourth Level Developments,
31 Ashley Hill,
Montpelier,
Bristol,
BSE SJA
England
Tel: 01 17 955 9157
Fax: 0117 955 8225
E-ma 1 1 : d icecsa I es@f level .dem on .co.uk
(For sales enquiries.)
diceclnfo@flevel.demon.co.uk
(For general information and enquiries.)
You'll need a full version in order to make
use of the revision control-system and, also,
without it you are limited to four functions per file,
which could result in some cut W pasting with the
finder application!
"VERSION to char *VERSION_STR, you'll
need to touch up the first line in the main()
function in "main.c" to reflect this.
All being well, we're cruising. Delete any
other stray files. You should now only have the
following Hies in your source drawer:
externals. h
finder.h
main.c
gui.c
event . c
search . c
If you have anything else, remove it. Now open
your DCC drawer and double-click on VMAKE.
Now select "New" from the "Project" menu. Use
the file requester to point to the drawer which
contains the above files and type "Finder" into
the "File:" string gadget and press "OK". Bingo!
You should notice a new file appearing in
the source drawer called "Finder. DICE". Now
select "SCAN" from the "Edit" menu. After a
few seconds, all your source files should
appear in the VMake list. Now select "Update
Revision" from the "Edit" menu. This creates a
new file called "Finder_rev.h", which contains
all sorts of goodies which we can use. You now
have to make one final modification to "main.c"
to include this file. Every 7 time you wish to
bump up the version you simply select this.
Now, select "SCAN .H" from the "Edit"
menu to update the list to include
"Finder_rev.h", and select "Save" from the
"Project" menu to save this off to disk. All being
well, click on the "Run" button and the
program should compile. If you have
problems, let DICE help you! Make sure you
have installed it to run your favourite editor
(see the DICE Installer). I use CygnusEd
Professional 3.5, but you may find the DME
editor supplied with DICE far more convenient.
We'll look at DME more next month.
Next month, we'll have all the split-up files
on the Coverdisk for you and we'll look at
revision- control and start doing some really
neat things with VMake. The most important
achievement is that wc have organised our
program far better. This will pay off greatly-
over the coming months when we start to
make modifications as wc learn more about
both C and DICE. In the meanwhile, good luck
and see vou next month! ■
79
ShopperTutori
Comms
Darren Irvine
■>y E-mail
You can find Amiga resources on the Internet in abundance, but what if you only have E-mail access to the
Net? is it enough to access those wonderful files, or are you hopelessly restricted? Darren Irvine knows.
If last month's guide to Amiga
resources on the Internet whetted
your appetite, but you were
restricted by only having E-mail
access to the Net, worry no longer -
E-mail access from anywhere (including
Fidonet) is enough to be able to access files
anywhere on the Internet.
One thing to bear in mind when using a
gateway from Fidonet, is that there is usually a
limit to the size of the files that can be
transferred - typically about 8K, so requesting
large files is not really feasible. However, there
are plenty of text resources on the Net that
Fido users will be able to make use of.
Archie by E-mail
Although you can find lists of Internet
resources along with their addresses and
directory paths in the Internet Yellow Pages, or
in magazines like our sister magazine .Net, the
location of a particular file can be less than
obvious. To solve the problem, an Internet
searching tool called "Archie" was developed to
specifically find software on the Net.
Although primarily an interactive tool,
certain sites on the Internet have set up
Archie-servers that are operated by sending E-
mail messages containing the commands that
you want Archie to perform. The results of the
search are then E-mailed back to the original
sender. Most Archie sites use the "Subject:"
field from your mailer as if it was part of the
body of the message itself.
But since not all support this, it's a good
idea to leave the "Subject:" blank, unless you
know for certain that the site that you're using
supports commands in the subject line. Send
the message with the commands that you want
Archie to perform to "archie@xxx.xxx.xxx",
where the "xxx.xxx.xxx" part is the address of
one of the available Archie server sites -
choose one from the list below.
Archie by E-mail
commands
help - Including the word "help" will send
back to you the site-specific help document for
the Archie sewer that you are using - sometimes
certain sites will have advanced features not
80
covered by the general Archie specifications
and requesting the help document will tell you
about these if there are any.
path address - The "path" command
specifies an E-mail address to which the reply
generated by Archie should be sent - if you
leave this command out, the message will be
sent back to your own Internet E-mail address.
Fido users must specify the proper return
address here - see the box bottom right.
prog pi <,p2..> - The "prog" command
searches the Archie database for a program
name that matches the pattern or patterns
("pi" , "p2" etc) you have specified. Note that
this search is case-sensitive. For example, to
search for the program "Metamail", you should
search for something like "etamail", so that
you'll find the program regardless of whether
it is stored with an upper or lower first case.
whatis si <,s2>s - This command is
similar to the "prog" command, except that it
searches for, and returns, software packages
descriptions, rather than the locations of the
packages themselves. This time, the search is
not case-sensitive.
list pi <,p2> - This time, the search
pattern is used to locate matches on the list of
FTP sites themselves.
si I en a me - The "site" command will return
information about the FTP site "name",
including the directory structure and a guide
to what each directory contains.
quit - Use "quit" to specify that the command
part of your message is finished. You will need
to include a "quit" if your mailer automatically
E-mail
servers
If you want to try a different server from
the one in the examples (if, for instance, you
find response times to be very slow), try one
from the following list. Remember that if
you get replies containing error messages,
you can check the expected syntax for that
particular server by sending a message with
the word "Help":
bi t f tp@puc c . princeton . eclu
bitftp@vm.gmd.de
f tpsnailSdecwrl . dec . com
f tpma ilSgrasp . insa-lyon . f r
mail-3erverSnluug.nl
June 1995
appends anything to the end of your mail
messages, such as a signature file or tagline.
Getting started with
Archie by E-mail
The first couple of times you try to do an
Archie search, you may find that you get a lot
more information back than you expected, or
none at all. Persevere and you will soon
discover the sort of search strings that
produce the most appropriate results for your
needs. An example of a message sent to an
Archie server to find the mail minder program
"sabot" might be:
From : me@ittyadclr es s . com
Tot archie@archie. doc, ic.ac.uk
Subject! progs abot quit
FTP by E-mail
Finding out the whereabouts of software on
the Net isn't much use to you without a way to
get hold of the stuff. The usual way of doing
this is to use a program called FTP (File
Transfer Program) and there is an E-mail-only
version of this. It works in a similar manner to
Archie E-mail, and the basic principle of
operation is that you send a mail message to
the E-mail FTP Server containing instructions
about what file you want sent to you.
As with Archie servers, there are quite a
few E-mail FTP servers on the Internet and, as
before, you should choose one which is close
to you geographically. In general, the
commands available at each of the servers are
the same, but you may occasionally come
across a site with non-standard commands.
If you get an error report from a server
when using one of the standard commands,
you can usually find out the exact syntax of
the commands expected by this particular site
by sending a message with the word "help" in
the subject line or body of the message.
The sort of commands that can be sent to
E-mail FTP servers relate to things such as the
size of the mail messages, the encoding system
to use when sending the file and, of course,
the name and location of the file itself. In
addition to the name of the file and the
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directory in which it is located, you must also
tell the E-mail FTP server on which other FTP
site on the Net the file you want is kept.
Breaking the code
In case you were wondering, all files sent to
you by a server have to have been encoded by
one method or another due to the text-based
nature of E-mail communications - since E-
mail was originally only designed to handle
text, it only transmits 7-bit data.
This isn't a lot of use for transferring
anything other than ASCII text, such as
graphics files of programs, so the 8-bit data of
such files must be encoded in a way which
represents them using only 7 bit characters.
The usual way to do this is to use a program
called UUencode.
You need a copy of the decoding program
UUdecode before you can use any files sent to
you by an E-mail FTP service, but most BBSs
have this. The other main encoding method is
called MIME (Multi-purpose Inline Mail
Extensions) which is a system developed to let
E-mail users include things such as graphic
files and sound with their text messages.
MIME is trickier to use than UUencode/
UUdecode, so you should avoid using it to
encode your E-mail FTP requests unless you
already have it set up on your Amiga.
Decoding a file which has been UUencoded is
a simple matter of typing in a Shell prompt:
uudecode filenarrte
Putting it into practice
Due to the reliability of its service, I have
decided to use a French server at the
University of Lyon. The address to this site is:
f tpmail@grasp. insa-lyon. f r
One peculiarity of this site is that the
default encoding system used is MIME, so you
need to explicitly specify UUencode if that's
the system you use. Here is an explanation of
the main commands that you will need:
reply-to address - This is the address to
which the requested file should be sent. If you
just want to have the response sent back to
your own E-mail address, you can leave out
this command:
open (site (user (password}))
This command is important, specifying which
FTP site on the Internet to try and retrieve
files from. Note that this can be any site at all.
There are three optional parameters which can
be supplied with the "open" command.
The first parameter is the FTP site to use
and defaults to the actual E-mail FTP server
that you are sending your hie request to.
The second parameter is the username
with which to log on to the FTP session - this
defaults to "anonymous" which is the
username accepted by 99% of all FTP sites,
and so can almost always be left blank.
The third parameter is the password to go
with the username and defaults to your own
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archle.au Australia
archle.funet.fi Finland
archie.th-darmstadt.de .....Germany
archie.cs.huji.ac.il ....Israel
archie.wide.ad.jp ...Japan
archie.kuis.kyoto-uac.jp ...Japan
a rch ie.sog a n g . a c. k r -..Korea
arch ie.luth.se ..-..Sweden
arch ie. ncu.edu.tw Ta i wan
archie.ans.net............. USA
archie.rutgers.edu USA
a rdiie.su ra . net „„ , USA
archie.unl.net... , U SA
E-mail address - again the standard for most
sites, so this one can usually be left blank too.
After you have used the "open" command
at the start of your message, you can include a
range of commands that are functionally
identical to their real-time counterparts.
cdpathname - This changes the working
directory to the value specified by the
"pathname" parameter.
Is (pathname) ordir(pathiiame) - These
two commands will return a listing of the
contents of the directory specified by a
preceding "cd" command. The difference
between the two is that "Is" produces a short
form listing and "dir" produces a full directory
listing, including file sizes and creation dates.
get(pathname)/rilename - This is
important. This command tells the server to
encode the file specified and mail it back to
you. If you don't specify a pathname for this
command, the server will look for the file in the
directory you most recently moved to, using
the "cd" command, or to a default directory
(usually "/pub") if you haven't yet used "cd".
compress - Compress causes the standard
Unix-style compression routine to be applied
to any files or director;' listings that are E-
mailed back to you - you will need a version
of "uncompress" before being able to use it.
Again, "uncompress" is available on many
BBSs, as well as from the Internet itself - try
using Archie to find a copy.
g/.tp - This is another Unix-stvle
compression routine. The major difference
between this and "compress" is that it can
apply to entire directories, rather than single
files. Again, you will need an Amiga version of
"gunzip" before this will be of any use to you.
UUencode/MlME - Either of these two
commands specify which encoding system will
be used on that file or files that you have
requested. Although MIME is a more flexible
system for E-mail in general, for the purposes
of retrieving programs and other files, it is
probably best to stick to "UUencode".
quit - This tells the server that you have
finished with E-mail FTP commands. As with
Archie by E-mail, you need to include a "quit"
command if your E-mail system automatically
appends things, such as signature files, to the
end of any message that you send.
Using E-mail FTP
Although, like Archie, some E-mail FTP
servers will let you use the "Subject:" field of
the E-mail message as part of the message
itself, not all of them do, so it's probably a
good idea to get into the habit of leaving the
subject blank when using FTP. You should
enter the address of the E-mail server that you
want to use into the "To:" field of your mailer.
The format of the mail message sent to
retrieve this file would be:
From? me@myaddress , com
To: Etprciail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
Subject: opends.intemic.net cdrfc
uuencode getrfclll6.txt quit
The world is your oyster
Having E-mail-only access to the Internet is by
no means the end of the world. In fact, the
FTP and Archie tools are only the start, as
more complex Internet resources, such as
Gopher and even the much-hyped World Wide
Web, are accessible (to a degree) by E-mail.
We'll look at how this can be done over the
coming months. For now, make the most of
the huge range of software and other files that
are out there on the Internet. B
Sending mail between the Internet and Fidonet
If you use Fidonet, you can still take advantage of
the E-mail versions of Archie and FTP. All that is
required is that you address your message to the
Server using a Fidonet/ Internet gateway. You must
also specify a return address for the results of the
Archie search (using the "path" command) and for
the files returned by the E-mail FTP server (using
the "reply-to" command).
The easiest way to do this is to send your
mail through one of the UUCP gateways. There are
a number of these around the country, and you
may even find that your boss node can be used
directly - ask your SysOp which is the nearest
gateway to you.
Note that some gateways actually forbid the
use of automatic services such as Archie or FTP, so
please check before you use a given gateway. The
mail message itself should contain the actual
Internet address on the first line, followed by the
commands that you want to send to Archie or FTP
and the format of your Fido mail header should be
similar to;
Toj
At:
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fidonet gateway address
i.e. z:n/f foimat
Subject:
archie@archie.doc.ic.ac.uk commands ....
Sending back from the Internet:
The address to specify for replies from Archie or
FTP should be in the following format:
User.Nameip { POINT} .f {NODE) .n(HET) .z(ZONE) , £
idonet . org@nowster . demon .co.uk
For example, my own address, Darren Irvine at
2:443:/ 13. 18 would be:
darren. irvine*pl8 . f 13 ,n443 . z2 . fidonet . org@n
owster . demon .co.uk
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Utilities
Jason Holborn
Workbench 4.0 may never see the light of day, but there's nothing to stop you enhancing the Workbench
yourself! Jason Holborn examines the best in PD Workbench utilities.
Commodore's software
engineers did a pretty good
job on the Amiga's Workbench,
but it's inevitable that there
are areas of the Workbench's
operation that don't quite match up to the
needs and expectations of each and every
Amiga user. Commodore tried its best to
address the needs of Amiga users through
progressive Workbench upgrades, but even
these failed to make every Amiga user happy.
With the likelihood of further Workbench
upgrades looking somewhat slim, what do you
do if you want to enhance your Workbench?
Short of employing the services of a
professional programmer, the answer lies in
the Amiga PD libraries. Workbench utilities
have always been a popular subject matter for
PD programmers, so there's no shortage of
fine software available, designed to enhance
and extend the capabilities of your Amiga's
Workbench environment.
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Select your favourite screen with Screen Select -
no more flicking between screens with the mouse.
Csh
Fred Fish 992
The Amiga's Shell environment has certainly
gone through a lot of changes since it first
appeared on the Amiga A1000 back in 1995.
The problem is, it's still not perfect. Although
Csh certainly won't cure all the Shell's
ailments, it gets close. The program acts as a
replacement for the standard Shell to provide
the Amiga with a Shell similar to the
program's namesake on Unix systems. Csh's
main features include over 100 built-in DOS
commands (no more disk swapping!), 70
functions, all-new system variables, file name
completion, freely programmable command
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line editing, file classes, auto and lazy CD,
Intuition menus and a lot more besides. In all,
Csh is possibly the ultimate Shell replacement
available. Check it out!
Screen Select
Fred Fish 998
Screen Select is a handy commodity program
that lets you change the order in which
screens are displayed by selecting screen
names from a list. The program also lets you
bind a hotkey to any screen, so you can
automatically bring it to the front of your
Amiga's display by simply pressing the
appropriate hot key combination. The
program supports automatic activation of
windows (i.e. it remembers which window was
last active on a given screen) when changing
to a new screen, is fully configurable via
Preference editor and features a full
Workbench font-sensitive front end.
Startup Menu
Fred Fish 996
Ever wanted to customise your StartUp-
sequence so that you're given the choice
of what program to run each time your Amiga
boots up? You need StartUp Menu. It is a
utility that produces a decisive menu (i.e. you
make one choice and the program quits)
whilst your Amiga boots up, which is fully
customi sable and offers an unlimited
amount of gadgets/choices. The program
also includes a small script file utility
called GctOption which lets your AmigaDOS
batch files interpret the output from the
StartUp menu.
WBSM
Fred Fish 992
Short for Workbench StartUp Manager,
WBSM allows you to activate or de-activate
any program that has been sel lo run from
your WBStartUp drawer during boot up.
When set up to run from the User-StartUp,
you can press the left mouse button to bring
up the program's front end, which lets you
activate or de-activate any of the programs in
your WBStartUp drawer before your Amiga
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gets a chance to run them. A simple, but very
useful tool which can be handy on systems
that are short of memory.
Iconian
Fred Fish 991
Need an Icon editor capable of producing 256
colour icons? Look no further than Iconian!
Iconian is an icon editor that supports the full
range of Workbench 3.0 icon functions, AGA
display modes (including palette sharing) and
icon creation in up to 256 colours. Designed to
do everything that Commodore's Icon Editor
can do and more, the program offers such
powerful functions as the remapping of IFF
brushes to the current Workbench colour
palette, automatic icon bevelling and a full
range of icon drawing tools.
Fliplt!
Fred Fish 989
Fliplt! is a commodity that enables you to
install hotkeys for flipping through standard
Intuition screens. Fliplt! lets you specify a
hotkey to push the foremost screen to the
back, a hotkey to bring the rearmost screen to
the front and so on. Despite being simple,
Fliplt! is a godsend if you regularly use utilities
that don't have their own depth gadgets.
PrtSc
Fred Fish 991
Have you ever noticed that there is a key
labelled PrtSc in your numeric keypad cluster?
If you've tried pressing it, then you'll already
know that it doesn't actually do a lot. Put
simply, PrtSc makes it work! Simply run this
program and then press the PrtSc key and
you'll get a dump of the current screen sent
directly to your Preference-supported printer.
This latest version also includes a full
Gadtools interface which provides a friendlier
front end and the ability to dump the current
screen to a file rather than to your printer.
TitleClock
Fred Fish 983
Need a clock for your Workbench that won't
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get in the way of other windows? Well, then
you need TilleCIock. It is a tiny commodity
(less than 4K!) that displays a clock in the top
right-hand corner of your Workbench titlebar.
It may be set up to display itself on one or
more screens without running multiple copies
of same program. It may also be set to follow
your default public screen and also to always
display on the front screen.
BootWriter
Fred Fish 990
BootWriter is a bootblock-installing utility
boasting many powerful features. The
program enables you to install either an
'official' bootblock (i.e. Commodores own), or
one of the many custom bootblocks built into
the program. Bootblocks can be saved and
loaded as either normal or powerpacked files,
and bootblock files and disk-based bootblocks
can be checked for viruses. And, thanks to the
virus recognition code 'borrowed' from VirusZ,
the program can recognise any one of 550
different bootblocks.
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custom, bootblock on to your floppy disks.
Hunt Windows
Fred Fish 981
With the arrival of Workbench 2.0, it's now
possible to open screens considerably
bigger than the visual size of your monitor.
Even on a double-sized Workbench, however,
finding a window that has been opened in the
hidden part of the screen can be a hit-and-
miss affair. Not so if you've got
HuntWindows installed, though. This little
utility hangs itself on your Amiga's vertical
blanking period and automatically keeps
walch on any windows that are opened.
Whenever it detects the appearance of a new
window, HuntWindows automatically
repositions the visible area of the screen so
that the new window is displayed.
SmartCache
Fred Fish 991
SmartCache is a small (less than 3K!), but very
efficient utility that patches itself into the
Amiga's own trackdisk. device to provide
automatic disk caching. The program works
by setting aside a whole cylinder on each and
every disk that you connect to your Amiga.
Designed to boost the performance of your
floppy disks, the program uses your excess
memory (if you have any) as part of a shared
cache scheme. This may sound like techno
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babble, but the net result is considerably faster
disk accesses when reading files that you've
already accessed before. Give it a try!
IconToClip
Fred Fish 984
IconToClip provides a common interface
between the Workbench and Shell
environments. It adds a new menu item to the
Workbench Tools menu that, when selected,
puts the name of any highlighted icon into the
clipboard. Once there, it can be pasted into the
Shell, or any program that makes use of the
Amiga's powerful clipboard device. The
program also provides an option for writing
the fill pathname and it can also handle
multiple icon selections, writing the filenames
in row or column format and so on.
CapsLockExt
Fred Fish 983
CapsLockExt is a commodity that extends the
effect of the CapsLock key on your Amiga's
keyboard so that the symbols on your number
keys are accessed too (rather than capital
letters only), effectively allowing the CapsLock
key to act almost identically to the Shift Lock
key on a typewriter keyboard. If you want to
temporarily access numbers whilst the
CapsLock key is switched on, CapsLockExt
enables you to switch back to normal mode
simply by pressing the Shift key.
WindowDaemon
Fred Fish 984
This handy utility provides extended control
over Intuition windows and screens via ARexx
and hotkeys. The program features full
commodities support, a wide range of window
controls (including zip, close, size, to front, to
back, next screen and so on), the ability to
close the parent window whenever a drawer is
opened (therefore saving memory and keeping
your Workbench uncluttered), options to
forcefully close windows and screens (useful
when programs crash) and remove crashed
tasks from memory.
NewTool
Fred Fish 985
NewTool is a program that can be used to
quickly replace the default tool of any Project
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icon. The program lets you specify the default
tool to use, use a file requester to pick the new
default tool, or, if you prefer, it will
automatically pick a new default tool for you,
based upon the file type. If you have a paint
file but not the program that created it, for
example, NewTool will change its default tool
to use your own paint program,
Forcelcon
Fred Fish 984
Forcelcon is a utility aimed at those of you
who own CD-ROM drives. Since it is not
possible to 'snapshot' the position of a CD-
ROM disk icon, nor replace it with an icon of
your choice, Forcelcon was developed. The
program lets you set the position of a disk's
icon and even replace it with an icon of your
choice without having to actually change the
CD-ROM disc's disk.info file (which is
impossible anyway). A simple, but effective
utility that gets the job done.
Yass
Fred Fish 983
Short for Yet Another Screen Selector, Yass is
er... yet another screen selector. What makes it
so special, however, is that it runs as a
commodity and offers a range of handy
features such as: completely hotkey-driven
operation (you can still use the mouse if you
want to though); displays both screens and
windows (although either can be toggled on or
off); shows public screen and normal screen
names; is fully font sensitive; and can even
open its screen on any screen, regardless of
whether it's a public screen or not.
ConPaste
Fred Fish 981
ConPaste is a Workbench 2.0 commodity that
allows you to paste clipped text into just about
anything (into string gadgets, for example). In
this latest version, ConPaste can automatically
drop its priority by 1 when pasting text to
allow sufficient processor time for the
receiving task, or window, to process the text.
When you press a user-defined hotkey
combination, ConPaste will take any IFF
FTXT text found in the clipboard, convert the
text back into events and send the input events
back into the input stream.
QMouse
Fred Fish 979
QMouse is an unusually compact, yet feature-
packed mouse utility inspired by the original
QMouse by Lyman Epp. Features on offer
include: automatic window activation
whenever a mouse moves over a window (just
like the Sun windows system); top line
blanking for A30O0/A2320 users; system-
friendly mouse blanking; mouse acceleration;
'PopCLI' (open a Shell window via a hotkey);
click to front/click to back; northgate key
remapping; and more. Although the program
needs a Workbench 2.0-based Amiga, it doesn't
run as a commodity.
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formatting utility available for the Amiga. It makes
Commodore's offering look very poor indeed!
StartWindow
Fred Fish 979
StartWindow is a configurable Workbench
program launching utility. It opens a
'zipwindow' that, when activated, presents
the user with a list of preconfigured
commands that can be performed with a
single mouse-click.
QDisk
Fred Fish 971
QDisk is a Workbench utility that will monitor
the amount of free space on any mounted
AmigaDOS volume (hard and floppy disks, for
example). QDisk automatically displays a
warning if the amount of free space on a given
volume is reduced to a dangerously low level.
PowerSnap
Fred Fish 968
PowerSnap is a utility that allows you to use
the mouse to mark characters that appear
anywhere on the Workbench screen and then
paste them into a word processor, text gadget,
or whatever. The program checks what font is
used in the window you're snapping text from
and adjusts itself accordingly. The program
recognises all non-proportional fonts up to 24
points wide and of any height. Running on all
Workbench 2.0-based Amigas, PowerSnap
works equally well with both the SheE and
Workbench environments.
KingCON
Fred Fish 977
KingCON is a console handler that replaces
the standard CON: and RAW: devices with an
all-new Shell device that provides a whole host
of handy features including filename
completion (just press TAB and KingCON
searches the specified directory for a filename
that matches the part of the filename you've
already typed), a full history review buffer,
Intuition menus, jump scrolling, cursor
positioning with the mouse and even a special
version of the program for 68020-based Amigas.
Replex
Fred Fish 976
Short for REPLace Executable, Replex is a
handy patch that substitutes the default tool ol
any project icon with the name of a program
of your choice. Say, for example, you wanted
to display a text file that was set up to call a
text reader called 'c:More'. With Replex, you
can tell your Amiga to access a different text
reader whenever it is requested to load c:More.
This latest version also includes a special
'catch' option that automatically prompts you
to select an alternative whenever a project icon
tries to access a program that isn't present on
your system.
Yak
Fred Fish 971
Short for Yet Another commodity, Yak is a
mouse utility that features SunMouse-like
activation of windows, hotkey activation of
windows, the ability to click windows to front
or back, cycle screens with the mouse, mouse
and screen blanking, a full range of window
tools (close/zip/shrink/enlarge etc) and so on.
IconTrace
Fred Fish 967
IconTrace is a handy utility which can be used
to display which tooltypes a given program
supports, allowing you to discover
undocumented tooltypes. This program
requires a Workbench 2.0-based Amiga.
LazyBench
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Fred Fish 969
LazyBench is a handy utility for those of us
who are too lazy to hunt through endless
drawers and directories for a program's icon.
LazyBench installs itself as a commodity and
automatically adds its name to the Workbench
'Tools' menu. Once activated, the LazyBench
window pops up on to the screen, complete
with a list of programs that can be run simply
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IconTrace. It requires Workbench 2.0, though.
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by clicking on the appropriate program name.
LazyBench includes a Workbench 2.0
compliant front end that is both font-sensitive
and fully configurable.
Angle
Fred Fish 964
Short for Another Great Intuition Enhancer,
Angic is a commodity program that can be
used to assign 'Angie sequences' containing
dozens of Intuition -related events (mouse
clicks and so on), arbitrary AmigaDOS
commands and input event data to an
unlimited number of hotkeys. Furthermore,
any 'Angie sequence' can be executed via ARexx.
Angie's capabilities include auto window
hunting, auto ActiveWinTask priority increment,
auto DefPubScreen definitions and so on.
Those of you who hate AmigaDOS will love
Angie's Intuition front end which is completely
localised to cope with foreign languages.
AppCON
Fred Fish 953
AppCON is a simple, but effective utility that
patches the Amiga console device so that it
becomes an 'AppWindow'. Once patched, you
can drop an icon into the window and your
Amiga will automatically insert the filename
and path into the current command line almost
as if you'd typed it yourself. This facility can
be very useful when accessing files embedded
deeply within the directory structure of a disk,
as it removes the need to manually type the
full path and filename yourself,
SuperDuper 3.1
Fred Fish 979
Tired of waiting for the Workbench disk copier
to do its stuff? If so, then SuperDuper could be
for you. SuperDuper is a high-performance
disk copier and formatter that makes
Commodore's effort look very sad indeed.
Capable of copying (and verifying!) an entire
disk in less than 99 seconds and formatting a
disk in just 38 seconds, SuperDuper more than
lives up to its 'Super' label. Thanks to its built-
in disk compression routines, SuperDuper is
capable of copying an entire disk in one pass
on a standard 1Mb Amiga. Bells and whistles
include full support for high density disks,
automatic date increment, auto-start whenever
a disk is inserted into the destination drive
and so on.
Add Power
Fred Fish 939
AddPower is a utility that adds some
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Workbench 2.0-based Amigas. Additional
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disk drives from clicking); pen colour Fixing
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Directory utilities
MultiTool 2
Fred Fish 997
MultiTool 2 (or just MTool to its friends) is a
powerful directory utility based upon that
commercial classic, Directory Opus 4. Like Opus, It
offers all the basic functions that you'd expect from
a directory utility - copy, delete, rename, make air
etc - plus additional 'special' features can be added
via external programs. One of its most powerful
features is that you can explore LHA archives in the
same way as you can explore the directory structure
of a disk, simply by double-clicking on the archive's
filename. You can then selectively pick the files
and/or directories you want to dearchive to disk.
What's more, you can quickly and easily add files to
an archive in exactly the same way as you would
copy a file from one directory to another. It really is
that simple.
Like all good Workbench 2.0 compliant
programs, MTool supports different screen modes,
localisation, custom isable fonts and it even creates
its own Applcon on the Workbench each time it is
run. Before you buy a commercial directory utility,
take a look at MultiTool first
Browser 2
Fred Fish 995
Browser 2 is what the author calls a 'Programmer's
Workbench'. Quite what this is supposed to mean is
beyond me - suffice to say, however, it's a damned
fine directory utility. The program enables you to
quickly and easily move, copy, rename and delete
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no-nonsense directory utility that gets the job done
and gets It done well.
files and directories via the mouse. The program
also provides a method of executing either
Workbench or CLI programs by double-clicking on
them, or by selecting them from a ParM-IIke menu
with lots of arguments. Browser 2 makes extensive
use of the PD whatis. library file to detect file types
and execute commands based upon their type.
MegaD
Fred Fish 929
MegaD is a fully featured directory utility similar to
Directory Opus. The program supports multiple
Browser 2 uses a front end that sets it apart from
the many Directory Opus clones. Whether you'll
like it is another matter, though...
directories, multiple text/hex readers, multiple
source and destination directories, and disk
copying. Like Opus, you can set up your own
buttons which can be set up to launch internal,
external and ARexx-based commands and
programs. For all you ARexx fans, the program
provides 123 internal ARexx functions which can be
used to customise the program's operation.
MegaD's greatest strength is the level at which its
front end can be configured. Like Opus, MegaD lets
you edit its menus, buttons and even the program's
screen layout.
86 p like wildcards (* instead of #?); screen border
blanking; and so on.
SteamyWindows
Fred Fish 947
Its name may seem a little raunchy, but
SteamyWindows is actually a small, yet useful,
commodity that increases the priority of the
owner-task of the active window and restores
the task's priority to its original setting when
the window becomes inactive.
Clock
Fred Fish 943
As its name suggests. Clock is a simple clock
program. Unlike other clock programs,
however, this clock lets you 'snapshot' the
clock to stay with any screen, or it can be set
to freely pop up on the front screen
automatically. Other features include the
ability to set up to four alarms which, when
activated, can be set to either display a
requester, or to run another program.
Smaus
Fred Fish 947
Smaus is a highly configurable 'Sun Mouse'
utility, implemented as a commodity complete
with an Intuition front end. Like other Sun
Mouse utilities, Smaus automatically activates
the window directly beneath the mouse
pointer. Uniquely, you can specify titles of
windows which won't be effected by Smaus.
Mach V
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utility of the same name!
hotkey utility that lets you record keystrokes
and mouse events, manipulate screens and
windows, pop up a Shell, view the contents of
a clipboard, blank the screen and so on. This
latest release boasts a complete ARexx
interface which enables you to execute ARexx
programs and functions from hotkeys and
store the results from those functions in
environment variables. The program's optional
titlebar clock runs like an AppWindow, which
allows you to drop an icon on it, resulting in
the filename of that icon heing stored in an
environment variable.
ClipWindow
Fred Fish 935
ClipWindow is a program that makes it easy to
copy frequently used text on to the Amiga's
clipboard. The program opens an AppWindow
on the Workbench which accepts project icons
and associated text files. The text is copied to
the clipboard ready for pasting. Text may be
stored in a separate text file, or directly
entered as 'tooltypes' in a project icon. Also
included is an additional program called
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ConPaste, a commodity which allows you to
paste clipboard text just about anywhere (your
favourite word processor, for example).
CloseWB
Fred Fish 939
This program attempts to close the Workbench
screen after a given amount of time. It proves
useful in StartUp-Sequences that launch
applications that do not need the Workbench
screen, therefore freeing up valuable memory
(closing the Workbench screen can save a
minimum of 40K of chip RAM!).
ToolType
Fred Fish 934
ToolType is a program designed to make the
process of editing icon tooltypes that bit
simpler. The program reads the tooltypes from
any icon and then lets you use your favourite
text editor to change, or add to, the tooltypes.
Also included is an option which lets you sort
the tooltypes alphabetically.
ShellMenus
Fred Fish 933
Ever wanted to have your favourite Shell
commands immediately accessible at the
touch of a mouse button? With ShellMenus
installed on your system, you can! ShellMenus
is a program to help Shell users to save time.
The program attaches user- definable pull-
down menus to the Shell window which, when
selected, insert the chosen menu item
command into the Shell window. Say, for
example, you wanted to back up your
preference settings, but couldn't be bothered
to type the appropriate Shell command - wi'
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any file, or an area of memory, as binary data.
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command to a pull-down menu and select it
with the mouse whenever vou want to use it.
WBSearch
Fred Fish 922
Large hard disks are all very well but it's all
too easy to lose a file within the complex
directory structures that such drives harbour.
If you've ever lost a file on your hard disk then
you need WBSearch. As its name suggests,
WBSearch is a multitasking AppMenuItem file
searching utility. The program's only limitation
is that it does not support pattern matching so
you need to know the exact filename of the file
you've lost, or WBSearch won't be able to
track it down.
Assign Manager
Fred Fish 913
AmigaDOS assignments can be a pain to keep
track of, so PD author Matt Francis designed
AssignManager. AssignManager is a new
Workbench Prefs editor designed to handle
your custom assignments in a more friendly
way. With AssignManager installed, there's no
more need to fiddle with StartUp sequences as
you can edit assignments from a friendly
Intuition- based editor. On the same disk as
AssignManager is another utility, called
AssignPrefs, which does exactly the same job,
but has been designed by a different
programmer. Try the two programs and use
the one you're most comfortable with!
StatRAM
Fred Fish 915
StatRAM is a very fast, very recoverable RAM
drive that runs rings around Commodore's
own RAD device. Designed for any Amiga with
Workbench 2.0 or greater, StatRAM maintains
the remarkable performance of the original
VDO: device (a real PD classic), but has been
completely rewritten to handle any AmigaDOS
file system. It can be renamed to whatever you
like and, best of all, it shrinks and expands to
cope with any files that you copy into it or
delete (rather than simply swallowing up a
chunk of memory like RAD!).
AZap
Fred Fish 934
AZap is a powerful binary editor that lets you
edit binary files, memory or the contents of
devices such as floppy or hard disks (like a
disk editor). It can open several windows
simultaneously, is fully localised and handles
all Workbench 3.0 file systems, including full
support for high density disks, international
mode formatting and so on.
Trash Master
Fred Fish 916
Trash Master is a Workbench 2.0 Applcon that
enables you to delete files simply by 'dragging
and dropping' them on to the TrashMaster
trash can icon which the program creates on
the Workbench screen. The program can
delete both files and directories either
interactively (it will display an 'are you sure?'
prompt), or automatically. You can also drop a
disk icon on to TrashMaster and it will call the
Workbench disk formatter automatically.
WBvwm
Fred Fish 929
Workbench 2.0's ability to create displays
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larger than the area that can be displayed at
any one time is all very well but it can be a tad
slow on anything less than an A4000. Spurred
on by these limitations, PD author Juhani
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opens up a small window representing the
entire Workbench area. Within the window,
'objects' are used to represent all the open
windows. By moving an object, WBvwm
moves the corresponding window to reflect its
new position within the Workbench display.
You can also instantly move to any part of the
Workbench area by double-clicking in the
corresponding area of the WBvwm window.
AmigaGuide
Fred Fish 920
If you don't already have Commodore's
AmigaGuide Hypertext reading utility then get
yourself a copy of Fred Fish 920. The pack
includes developer information, examples and
tools for running AmigaGuide on Workbench
2.0 or 3.0, a registration card for registering
your copy of AmigaGuide with Commodore
(or whoever), the AmigaGuide.library file (very
important) and the many other ancillary files
required to properly run AmigaGuide.
MagicMenu
Fred Fish 906
MagicMenu is a utility that patches Intuition's
pull-down menus (both 'pop-up' and 'pull- ^ 93
Virus checkers
AntiCicloVir
Fred Fish 989
AntiCicloVir Is a link virus detector and exterminator
which can also handle the more traditional
bootblook virus. The program can detect 126
bootblock viruses, 17 link viruses, 28 file viruses, 7
disk-validator viruses, 14 Trojan and 8 'bomb'
viruses, tike all good virus checkers, the program
automatically checks each disk that is inserted into
your Amiga's disk drives. It checks for bootblock
and disk-validator viruses and it can scan all tiles in
a specified directory for known link viruses,
constantly monitor system and memory vectors and
so on. It cannot, however, make a decent cup of tea.
VirusZ2
Fred Fish 989
One of the best virus checkers available is VirusZ 2
on Fish disk 989. Capable of recognising 279
bootblock viruses and 145 file viruses, VirusZ also
includes a special 'filechecker' utility that can
automatically decrunch crunched files for testing
(file viruses often slip through the net by being
hidden in crunched files!). The program's 'memory
checker 1 utility removes all known viruses from
memory without crashing your Amiga and then
continues to regularly check for any new viruses
that may appear. If AmigaDOS isn't quite your cup
of tea, the program features a full Workbench front
end, as well as a full range of hotkeys.
VirusChecker
Fred Fish 913
The most well-known PD virus checker has to be
John Veldthuis' VirusChecker, a program that can
check memory, disk bootblocks and all disk files for
signs of the most known viruses. What's more, the
program can remember non-standard bootblocks
that you tell it are OK, so that it ignores them when
they are next encountered. Like other virus
checkers, VirusChecker fully supports the acclaimed
'bootblock.hbrary' file which allows you to keep
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look. Menus can be displayed in either the
standard Workbench-look, standard
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bevelled-look. Features on offer include: the
ability to fully configure the appearance and
operation of menus, full keyboard access to
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touching the mouse!}, menu 'history'
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Stickit!
Fred Fish 913
Stickit! acts as a replacement for the good old
'Post It' notes that you'll find pasted to the
screens of most computer terminals in busy
working environments. It allows you to 'stick'
computerised notes on to your Workbench
screen that will be displayed every time your
Amiga is rebooted. Features include an
unlimited number of notes and fully-
configurable operation - the font, note size,
background/text colour can be edited and you
can delay the display of notes upon boot-up to
stop your Amiga's disk drive from 'thrashing'.
HFK
Fred Fish 908
HFK is yet another Workbench titlebar clock
utility that tries to look as much like your
Workbench's own titlebar as it can. In fact,
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small, non-draggable window in the top right-
hand corner of the screen which simply
overlays the Workbench titlebar. Unlike some
clock utilities, HFK will happily open on any
public screen, uses almost no processor time
whatsoever (so it won't slow down your
machine) and makes use of the timer. device to
ensure perfect timing.
DefPubScreen
Fred Fish 910
Short for Default Public Screen, this program
acts as a little wedge that forces the front screen
to act as the default public screen. It works by
wedging itself into the vertical blanking
interrupt server chain and watches Intuition's
record of which screen is being displayed in
front of all other screens. When a new screen
appears in front of all others, DelPubScreen
changes it into a public screen which can be
used to display programs [hat would normally
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Issue 50
Keep your tasks under control with TaskE, a
powerful task manager which can be used to clean
up after crashed tasks.
only open their windows on the Workbench -
the AmigaDOS Shell, for example.
CxPak
Fred Fish 904
Commodore already supply a hearty selection
of commodity programs that enhance your
Workbench, but there are some obvious
omissions. Short of waiting for Amiga
International to develop additional
commodities, the next best thing is this pack
on Fish disk 904. CxPak contains a set of five
commodities - AutoClick (bring a window to
the front simply by clicking on it), WClose
(close windows without having to locate their
close gadget), WCycle (cycle screens or
windows) and WSize (resize a window without
having to locate its sizing gadgets). An
invaluable addition lo any Workbench.
Fill
Fred Fish 904
Fill is a 'smart' multiple file mover/copier
utility that moves, or copies, files from one
directory to another. OK, nothing special so
far, but Fill takes this process one step further
by optimising the space on the destination
drive using a clever 'best fit' algorithm. This
allows the program lo fill virtually every byte
of space-on a floppy disk without splitting
files. The only disadvantage of this handy
utility is that it runs from the Shell only, so
mouse fans are going to be in for a shock.
TaskE
Fred Fish 903
TaskE is an In tuition- based task manager
which provides you with information on the
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tasks that are currently running on your
system and allows you to clean them up
(remove them from memory and close any
windows and screens that they may have
opened) should they take a trip to crash city.
In addition, TaskE lets you attempt to remove
tasks by sending them Control C signals, or
simply disable them to free up system cycles.
Popper
Fred Fish 900
Popper replaces Intuition menus with pop-up
menus which appear under the mouse pointer
instead of them dropping down from a
screen's titlebar The program also allows you
to literally 'rip' a pull-down menu from the
menu bar and keep it on the screen as a
window. If you then choose to get rid of the
menu, all you need to do is click on the close
gadget that Popper attaches to it.
DA
Fred Fish 896
Short for Digital Aesthetics, DA is a program
that provides you with a soothing audio
environment designed to relieve stress whilst
you're working away with the Workbench.
Similar to those weird tapes you can buy in
New Age shops, containing hours of rainfall
and ocean surf sounds, DA uses special sound
modules called 'EMods' (short for environment
modules) which produce similar sounds to the
relaxation tapes. With DA, you can control
various aspects of the sound and even link
several EMods together in a relaxing sequence.
HDCIick
Fred Fish 891
HDCIick is a bard disk and Workbench menu
that enables you to quickly and easily start
programs, batchfiles and ARexx scripts simply
by clicking on a gadget. HDCIick opens its
own screen or, if you prefer, a small window
on the Workbench. The program also provides
an Applcon which lets you view pictures, play
sound samples and view text files simply by
dropping the file's icon on to the Applcon.
Each program gadget you define can have its
own font and colour set-up and you can define
an unlimited number of submenus.
Imploder 4.0
Fred Fish 984
Since PowerPacker went commercial, the best
PD file cruncher available has lo be Imploder
4.0 on Fish disk 984. Imploder enables you to
reduce the size of any executable without
losing the file's function - that is, crunched
files can be loaded like any other program
without having to decrunch the program first.
There are plenty of other PD file crunchers
available, but few are as mindful of the
complexities of the Amiga's Operating System
as Imploder. Although not quite as powerful as
the latest release of PowerPacker, Imploder 4.0
still boasts some of the most efficient
crunching algorithms you're likely to find in
terms of both speed and size reduction. ■
93
ShopperPublic Domain
June 1995
Issue 50
This is your comprehensive guide to where to go to
find the Public Domain program of your dreams.
17 Bit Software, 1 st Floor Offices, 2=3 Market
Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 IDK
tt 0954 366982, fax 01 924 200941 Catalogue
SOp or free if you send an s,a,e Accept phone orders,
credit cards and direct debit Open 8am - 8pm
Men - Thur, 9am - 5.30pm Fri - Sat
A1200 Only PD - BJ Cowdall, 23 Bam Way.
Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2LY. Try lo obtain alt
AGA PD and WB3 utils etc Catalogue is £1 or send a
disk and an s.ae. No phone orders or credit cards. For
a printed catalogue just send an sa-e, Disks are £1
each. Frequent special offers!
Active Software, PO Box 151, Darlington, County
Durham Dl_3 8YT. B 1 &fax 01325 352 260. EMail
Buxfl@unn.ac.uk. Specialise in professional collections,
compile disk packs, essential Aminet compilations and
sound samples. Catalogue' 50p„ No phone orders,
credit cards or direct debit Open 9am - 9pm,
Discounts to User Group members.
Activity Software, 393 Doneaster Road,
Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 2UF. » 01709
377730. Catalogue 1 st class stamp. Do not accept
phone orders, credit cards or direct debit
Open from 9am - 5.30pm rvton- to Sat Additional info,
also stock Ft shareware. Crasy Joe's, 141 Effingham
Street, Rotherham.
AGA Exchange, 18 Brownshill, Cromer, Norwich,
Norfolk, NR27 OOA, specialist areas; AGA
PD/shareware full advice service, PD exchanges.
Laser printing service. Catalogue free (witti s.a,e. +
disk). No phone orders, credit cards or diced: debit
Ami Com PD, 22 Church View Close, Hatfercraft,
Wakefield, WF4 2PH. W 0226 723807 ask for Kevin
Of lan, Catalogue disk £1. Accept phone orders if
buyer collects. Give special discount on large orders.
Frequent special offers. Free catalogue updates.
Amiga nuts, 3 Spring Road, Bitterne, Southampton,
Hampshire, S019 2BH. Specialist areas: Ace, Accm,
Words 4, general software and titles produced by Ml
Meany. Catalogue, 50p + s.a_e. Do not accept phone
orders, credit cards or direct debit Open 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
Anim 1 PD, PC Box 123, West Mailing, Kent, ME' 9
6UA, IT none. Specialise in Animation graphics.
Catalogue cost 60p. No phone ordefs, credit cards, or
direct debit
Asgard Software, 20 Langdale Drive, Flanshaw,
Wakefield, W Yorks WF 2 9EW ^ 01 924 363 059.
Specialise In all types of Amiga PD (approx, 4,000
disks in library), Catalogue as £1. No phone orders, no
credit cards or direct debit. Open 24 hours.
Barkin Mad, 13 Rhyber Avenue, Lanark, Lanarkshire,
ML1 1 7AL n 1 555 663530. Catalogue free
when sending a s.a.e. and/or disk Accept phone
orders Do not accept credit cards or direct debit
Open 24 hours - 7 days. We fully encourage
swapping PD as well as selling to try to spread good
quality PD as far as possible.
Seats Brothers PD T 6 Brownings Close, Pennington,
Lymington, Hampshire, 5041 8GX. Specialist areas:
Amiga games and utilities. Catalogue £1 inc p&p, Do
not accept phone orders, credit cards or direct debit
The catalogue disk will he released in August 1994.
Belshaw's Computers, 55 Ba certon Gate, Newark,
Notts. V and Fax 01635 72503. Calalogue free.
Accept phone orders. Do not accept credit cards or
direct debit Open 9.30am to 5.30pm. Retail outlet,
customers can call at shop,
SGPD 6 Peter Steet Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28
7QB. Specialist areas: can supply any title reviewed In
any Amiga magazine. The latest Assassin collections.
Catalogue 50p or send a blank disk. Do not accept
phone orders, credit cards or direct debit Also many
second hand (commercial) games +■ utilities and a PD
document printing service
Blitz Basic PD, 30 Rid rig Deno, Mickley,
Northumberland, NE43 7DL Specialise In Blitz Basic
created PD. Catalogue is £1.50. Open 9am - 5pm.
Oct:-:. ;;■>:.,>..-:: fiiu: ■.'/ 1! h 4b hrs. Al ; c pr:.r:.i-; r ,-:
diskmag for Bliz users.
Chris's PD, 22 MenyfieWs Avenue, Hockley, Essex,
SS5 5 At. It 01 702 203826. Chris's PO disk cata-
logue 70p, 2 disk Fred Fish catalogue £1 .40, both
Chris's PD & Fred Fish disk catalogues £2.00 or Free
if you send s,ae. with sufficient disks. Do not accept
phone orders, credit cards or direct debit Open
6pm-8pm weekdays, 10am-4pm Saturdays. All disks
are virus free S error Free. AH disks only SOp each.
CAM PD, 26 Cropland Way, North Arbury,
Cambridge CB4 2NA,
Cathsral PD, 2 Sullib&n Way, Lichfield, Staffs WSl 3
6 AS IT 01543 268564. Contact Mr. Hughes.
Club 1200, 57 Europa Rd, Lowestoft, SufWk NR32
4B0. S" 01 336 328 263. Specialise in AGA and
WB3 only. Catalogue is £1 . No phone orders, no credit
cards or direct debit Open 9am - 7pm
Men - Frl. One disk free for every five bought
CPU Computer PD Library, 120 High Street,
Chatham, ME4 4BY W + Fax: 01634 326 218.
Catalogue cost £1 . Open 9.30am - 5pm
More -Sat
Craig Holmes Non-Proflt PD, 23 Rocester Avenue,
Wednesfie&d, Wcfoerhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1
3 ALL H 01902 305209. Specialist areas: latest virus
checkers. Catalogue, free listing upon request Do not
accept phone erders, credit cards or direct debit Open,
mail order only - but phone enquiries 9am - 8pm, 7
days a week, Addifionel info, all discs E1.76 inc pap.
Bulletin board available on Sunday 2prn - 5pm only.
Dead Budgie PD, 53 East Street, Ashburton,
Devon T0 13 7 AG- 70p tor two disks. Dont accept
phone orders, nor credit cards or direct debit They
accept postal orders or cash - cash is sent at your
own risk however.
Deck The Ri peer of N FA PD, 1 73 Trevind Drive,
Rushey Mead, Leicester LE4 7TR. tT 01 1 82 661
610. NFA productions are setting up a network of PD
houses across the UK in an effort to get PD to the
public as cheaply as possible.
Epic Marketing, Victoria Centre, 1 39 Victoria Road,
Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 3BU, * 01793 490988, Fa*
1 793 5 1 4 1 87 Specialists areas, desktop video fonts
and tutorials. Catalogue £1, Accept phone orders and
credit cards. Open 9.30am - 5.30pm Mon to Sat
Essex computer systems, Freepost CL2B75,
Southminster, Essex, CMO 7BR. W 01621 773778-
Specialise in Licenceware (central licenceware register
C.LR. organiser). Catatogue free. Phone orders
accepted, Accept credit ca/ds/direcl debit Open
10am - 6pm Mon to Fri. Members of the professional
standards for software distribution,
Eurodisk PD, 71 Phillimore Race, Radtett,
Herts WD7 3NJ. Catalogue cost £1 (free if disk and
s.a.e. is enclosed),
F1 - Ucenseware, 31 Wellington Rd, Si Thomas.
Exeter, Pevor. EX2 9DU. 'S' 01 392 493 5S0.
Catalogue is 50p. No phone orders, no credit cards.
Open 9am - 9pm.
Fantasia PD, 40 Bright Street, Gorsehill, Swindon,
Wiltshire, SN2 SB U. W 01 793 6 1 1 34. Specialist
areas: Slideshows, 3D rendered images tjpeg) serious
software. Catalogue .70p + .40p p&p or blank disk +
sa£. Accept phone orders. Do not accept credit cards
or direct debit Open 24 hours.
Five-Star PD. 48 Nemesai, Arlington, Tamworth, B77
4EL, U.K. IT 01327 53496. Specialist areas:
education utilities, DTP games. Catalogue .70p + Free
p&p. Do not accept phone orders, credit cards or
direct debit Open 9am 2pm 7 days a week. All disks
99p + free disk when buying 1 or more.
GD PD, 99 Turnberry Rd, Great Barr,
Birmingham B42 2HP.
G.V.B. - PD, 43 Badger Close, Maidenhead,
(Berkshire, SL6 2TE t? 01831 649386 (anytime), TP
01628 36020 (after 6pm). Specialist areas: all types.
Calalogue 3 t 1 st dass stamps. No phone orders,
credit cards or direct debit All disks £1 inc p&p with a
valid account number, first disk £1 .50.
Gothik, 7 Denmark Road, Northampton, NN1 50R.
IT 1 604 22456. Specialist areas: Blitz Basic 2
programming + PD. Do not accept phone orders,
credit cards/direct debit Open Sat I Oam to 5pm, We
were Batly's PO Club, but are now concentrating on
Blitz Basic 2 users.
Ground Zero, 4 Chandos Road, Redland, Bristol BS6
6PF_«01179 741 462.
Ho* rtesoft PD, C. Home, 23 Stanwell Close,
Wincobank, Sheffield, $9 1 PZ Tt 01 1 42 492950.
Specialist areas: Amiga PD over 1 J ,000 disks, CD
ROMS- Catalogue, Free d a s,ae. + disk are sent Do
not accept phone orders, credit cards or direct debit
Open from 9am till 6pm,
ICPUG (independent Commodore Products Users
Group), 45 Brookscroft, Lindon Glade, Croydon, CRO
SNA. V 0181/651/5435, Fax 01 31 /651/342&
Immediate Arts, 20 tyndhurst Gardens, Glasgow,
G20 BOY. W 1 4 1 Z946/5798. Catalogue, catalogs
disk £1 (p&p Inc), Do not accept phone orders, credeil
cards or direct debit Open 9am to 6pm.
JJPD, 43 Bewick Drive, Bakersfield, Nottingham NG3
7GB, U 01 1 59 377 528. Specialise in utilities.
Catalogue cost 75p inc. p&p. Open Mon - Sun
9.30 - 4.30. All PD 99p. Hardware also available.
Special members discount scheme,
KEW - II Software, PO. Box No 672, South
Croydon, Surrey, CR2 9YS. V 1 8 1 /Q57/ 1617
Specialist areas: utMies, quality PD & shareware,
system functions, Catalogue, introduction pack inc disk
£1, Accept phone orders. No credit cards or direct
debit. Open from Bam - 8pm. Full disks pick your own
files 500 K=Bootable 300 K=Unboolable.
Magnetic Fields shareware and Public Domain
Software, PO Box 1 18, Preston,. Lancashire, FR2
2AW « and Fax 01 772 88 11 9a Accept phone
orders, credit cards and direct debrt Open 9am to 5pm
Mon to Fri. We also do PC + ST.
MegaSoft, 78 Bockmgham Green, Basildon, Essex,
SS1 3 1 PF tt 01 268 5591 64. For a catalogue, send
two blank disks + stamps. Accept phone orders
through Megasoft membership codes.
Do not accept credit cards or direct debit Open 9am -
1 1 pm everyday. Over 1 500 disks. You name it we
stock rt, £1.20 per disk.
Microland Bulletin Board, PO Box 13, Aldershot
GUI 2 6VX. W and Fa* 01 252 25B41 . Specialist
areas Internet Catalogue, onry available online.
Do not accept phone orders, credit cards, or direct
debit Open 24 hrs,
Mon PD, 9 Lon-Y-Wyllan, Llanfairpg, Anglesea, N.
Wales LL61 5JU. ff 01248 714591.
N.B.S* l Chain Une r Newport, I of W, P030 5QA
tt 019S3 529594, Fax 01933 821599. Specialist
areas: PD, Cl_R Licenceware, commercial software.
Manga Video- Cataloge free with sae. Accept phone
orders, credit cards and direct debit Open office hours.
NFA-PD h R. Monks, ROBox 42, Grimsby, South
Humberside, DN33 1 RY: Specialists areas, The PO
house is currently A1 200 orientated, NON-AGA tttles
are available if they work on an A1 200, Catalogue
disk + s.ae. Do not accept phone orders, credit cards
or direct debit Orders usually dispatched same day,
Catalogue desk uses point and click and saves orders
to disk, also totals order with 10% off orders £10 or
more Prices $,X per disk inc p&p.
NJH PD, 12 Meesons Rd., Rochford, Essex, SS4 1RN.
© 01702 545 796 & Fax 01585 348 786.
Numero Uno, 21 Burstall Hill, Bndlington, North
Humberside, Y0 1 6 5N P. W 1 262 67 U 25.
Specialise in a lot of A1 200 stuff Catalogue costs a
blank disk or 1 st class stamp. Phone orders accepted
if buyer collects. Do not accept credit cards/direct
debit Open 4 - 10pm on Yvednesdays, 9am - 1 pm +
6.30am - 1 0pm on school holidays & weekends. 75p
a disk, 50p p&p.
Online PD, X The Cloisters, Hateall Lane, Formby,
Liverpool L37 3PX. -ff 01 704 834 335. Fan: 01 704
334 583 (phone voice line first) BBS" 01704 834
583. Specialise In demos Catalogue is 50p. They
accept phone orders and Visa, Access, Mastercard and
Eurocard. Open Mon - Sat, 9am - 6pm.
Orion PD, Mr Moderns, 14 Ouston Close, Wardley.
Gateshead, N E 1 8D2 W 1 9 1 /438/502 1 .
Paul Bstterldge PD, 25 Cunningham Crescent
Bournemouth, Dorset BH1 1 SDN. Free catalogue.
Pathfinder PD, 41 Marion Street, Bmgley, West
Yorkshire, BD16 4NQ. tT 01274 565205. Catalogue,
Ffae if a s.ae. is sent Do not accept phone orders,
credit cards or direct debit Open 9.30am - 5pm,
W? have our 6,000 titles in our library and also
our PC shareware.
PD+, 1 Wesley St., Bodedam, Anglesey, Gwynedd
LL65 3TD. A recently opened PD company. Send a
loose 1st class stamp for free list of all our software.
PD Soft, 1 Bryant Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex,
5S 1 2 YD. IP 1 702 466933, Fa* 1 702 6 1 7 1 23.
Specialist areas: Utilities and games Catalogue Free
Accept phone orders, credit cards and direct debit
Open 9am - 7 pm [Mon - Set). PC+ Amiga + CD.
PD World, 20 Princess Parade, Waterside, Craytord,
Kent DA1 4JD ^ 01322 552836.
Penguin Pubtic Domain, RO, So* 179, Reading,
Berkshire, RG3 3DD. Specialist areas Fred Fish and
all other areas. Catalogue froo but stamps appreciated.
Do not accept phone orders, credit cards or direct
debit Rjstal Orders only. All machines catered for.
Phils [ Aga' PD. 101 Grove Road, Gosport,
Hampshire, P012 4JJ. Specialist areas: AGA 1 based
Amiga only. For catalogue send s.a*.
Do not accept phone orders, credit cards, or direct
debit Open for mail order onry. PD is 50p a disk.
Pinnacle PD, 1 34 Buarth-y-Capel, Ynysybwl
Pontypridd, Mid Glam, CF37 3PA. « 01443 790996.
Catalogue, disk £1 inc p&p.
Premier PD, 45 Fairfield Gardens, Eastwood.
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex 559 5SD. Tel: 01702 520 520.
Offer a broad range, especially Comms s/w. Accepl
phone orders, but no credit cards. Open 4pm - 9pm
weekdays, 9am - 5pm weekends.
Riverdene PDL, 30 A School Road. Tilchurst
Reading, Berkshire,, RG3 5 AN. « 01734 452416,
Fax 1 734 45 1 239. Special 1st areas: Video
applications. Catalogue £1 . Accept phone orders,
credit cards and direct debit Open 9am to 5-30pm,
(24 hour answerphone). Est since 1987.
Roberta Smith DTP, 1 90 Fafloden Wsy> London,
NW11 6JETP 0181/455/1626. Specialist areas:
utilities, education, animation. Catalogue 50p + 50p
p&p or a blank disk + s,ae. Accept mail order by
return of post- Do not accept credit cards or |
direct debit Open from 1 0am - 6pm Won to Fri, 9am
- 12.30pm Sat We have a strong leaning to
desktop media publishing.
Saddletramps PD, 1 Lower Mill Close, Gotdthorpe,,
Rotherham, Soulh Yorkshire 563 9BY.
■B & Fax 01709 888 127. Free catatogue
Accept phone orders, but no credit cards or direct
debit Open all day, every day. Specialises in Amiga PD,
Amiga CD-ROMs, blank disks, official cist of CfR.
licenceware and Morton Strikes Back, repairs & spares.
Scribble PD. 2 Hillside Cottages, Burstall, Suffolk
IT 01473 65258a Catalogue £1, Accept phone
enquiries only. Do not accept credit cards or direct
debit Open from 09.30am - 530pm- Any
PD/shareware- title can be ordered at no extra cost
Seasoft Computing, The Business Centre, 80
Woodlands Ave, RustSngton, Sussex, BN16 3EY.
IS 01903 850378. Specialises in Amiga Public
Domain/Ljcenceware/CD ROMS/ accessories etc.
Catalogue free with first order, Accept phone orders,
credit cards and direct debit Open 1 0am - 7pm
Mon - Fri, until 5pm on Sat
SHI Regional Virus Centre UK 304 Leeds Rd,
EccteshiH, Bradford, W Yorks BD2 3LQ.
*P + Fax; 01274 779 212. Specialise in virus killers,
Open Mon - Fri 1pm -9 pm. People can phone
the free Virus Helpline on W 01274 779 212 during
the above hours.
Software Expressions, 1 17 Kennington Avenue,
Brshopston, Bristol, BS7 9E* * 01 1 79 4259B7,
Fax; the same number. Speciali&t areas: preponder'
ance of PD games, Catalogue is free.
Accept phone orders, credit cards and direct debit
(except switch). 9.30am - 5pm. Ftease state
Amiga models when ordering.
Siartronies, 39 Lamb-tore Road, Chorion, Manchester,
M21 IZJL 90161 881 8994. Specialist areas; 1.3
Software. Catalogue free to customers orders.
Accept phone orders, credit cards and direct debit
Open 9.30am - 5pm.
Tazmania PD, 21 Tealby Street, Lincoln LN5 3BS.
IT 1 522 5 1 934. Catalog ue on two disks and
costs SOp + s,a^. Wo phone orders, no credit cards
or direct debit Open til 6pm all week.
Disks £1 + 60p p&p,
Telesean Computer Services PO Box 1,
Thronton-Cleveleys, Lanes, FY5 1SH,
9 01253 329292. Catalogue, disk catatogue - 3
stamps. Accept phone orders^ credit cards and direct
debit Open 10am to 5pm.
The Official AMOS PD Library,
1 7 Wick Farm Road, St Lawrence Bay, Southminster,
Essex, CMO 7PF, TT and Fax 01 62 1 773304.
Specialist areas: AMOS programs, source-code
disks, tofalty AMOS disk magazine- Catalogue £1
disk SJ.e. for printed info. Do not accept phone
orders, credit cards or direct debit, Open, postal only
orders, queries during reasonable hours. The only
AMOS-only PD library in the UK, with the longest
running disk magazine,
Theory PD, PO Box 40, Wallsend,
Tyne & Wear, NE28 6YU.
Vally PD. RO, Box 1 5, Petedee. Co Durham,
SR8 1NZ. WQ191 587 1195, Fax 0191 587 1195.
Specialist areas; PD + shareware for Amiga + PC,
CD ROMS + CLR Licenceware. Catalogue 75p inc
p&p. Accept phone orders, credit cards and direct
debit. Open 9am - 6pm. Pari of the 'UPD' group.
Virus Free PD. 139 Victoria Road, Swindon,
Wiltshire, SN2 3BU IP 01 793 4321 76,
Fax 1 793 514187. Catalogue £ 1 or 4 x 1 st class
stamps. Accept phone orders and credit cards.
Open 9.3Gam - 5,30pm Mon to Sat Have been
trading for 5 years in PD,
Visage Computers Public Domain Library. 10
Station Roa4 Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 5LD. IT
01 1 59 44450 1 , Fax 1 1 59 44450 1 , Specialist areas:
Amiga hardware, software and peripherals as well as
PD. Catalogue 50p. Accept phone orders arn credit
cards, but not Switch. Open 9am - 5pm Mon to Sat
Your Choice PD, 39 Lambton Road, Charlton - cum
- Hardy, Manchester, M21 OZJ. ff 01 61 881 S994,
Specialist areas: licenceware. Catatogue free with
order. Accept phone orders,, credit cards and direct
debit Open 9,30am - 5pm Men Sat ■
tf your PD house is not fisted here and
you vjould tike it to be, ptease write with
hffi details to: Amiga Shopper PD Houses,
30 Monmouth Street Bath BA1 2BW.
94
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CD100 - Includes a SO page printed Book with
Name ft description of each disk & program on
_ the cdrom disc. The first cdrom w ith a f re/
printed book for all Amiga computers. M
Contains the coiitinualiun of our Various floppy drsJc^TTrsTap^a^iks
V1501-V1750), and our main librarv disks from 4001-4300. Tbi cdrom
covers a variety of Public Domain subjects; Games, Mega Demos -
AGA, Euro Demos, Demos, Product demos. Disk Magazines, Music
Titles, Slide shows, Clipart, Fonts, Rave Dance Tracts, Sampled Sounds,
Images in JEG, GIF, AGA 256. Imagine Objects, Textures,
Animations* Sound Samples, Music Modules, Colour
Clip an. Educational disks, Adodc type 1 fonts, DPaittt
fonts. Scalable fonts, Business programs, Word
processors. Graphic utilities. Workbench tools. Magic
Workbench icons. Music production. Hard drive utils*
Comma, Virus Killers, Video pruciion, Emulators,
tinier utilities, printer drivers. & much more.
CDCE3 ♦Tin Prvfaulwwl IFF / PCX Cllpirl 2 E19.M
Cranio in both IFF and PCX lotrrwts Eo
cover bolh PC & Amiga users, include*
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Cultural images from Eigypt. Japan, Native Americans,
Polynesia, tad Pe rsia are also included on the disc. Floral
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» 046 21078,
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101
Shop per Views
Letters
Sue Grant
Several people have their own ideas of how a new Amiga should look.
And everybody wants the return of the AMOS tutorial. Or do they?
There are some comments and
suggestions from the Reader
Survey in Amiga Shopper 47 in
the box at the bottom of this
page. It appeared that to most
readers who filled in the survey, the
redesigned issue was a welcome change
and they liked the new Cover disks. Which
is very encouraging for us! Keep your
comments and suggestions flowing in.
Future perfect
£25 Winner
Many Amiga magazines are
debating the Amiga's future.
However, the debate overlooks the
Amiga's main problem - that of its
image as a games machine to those
outside the Amiga fraternity.
Whoever finally purchases Commodore,
either Commodore (UK) or CEI [Or Escom -
Ed] is, to an extent, irrelevant with both
companies having undertaken to further
develop the machine. When either company
lakes control, they must start production of the
A4000 and, more importantly, the A 1200
(where they'll get most of their money from).
In addition, advertising must show the
machines' benefits as a professional machine
first and games machine second on peak-time
television and in major electrical retailers.
An example of failure is the current
television campaign by IBM who are
promoting their multi-tasking Operating
System. Both you and I know, but not the
public, that we have had multi-tasking for
years. Indeed, the public would not associate
such a serious feature with a games machine.
As Amiga-users, we all know about the
machine's capabilities, especially compared to
PCs and Macs, the so-called serious machines.
True, the machine is an excellent, friendly
machine with an extremely good graphical
Operating System, but it is very slow.
Our machine is in a precarious position.
The PC is now moving from the serious to the
home market. With its millions of users, this
onslaught is easily viable.
The Amiga is trying to go the opposite,
and far harder, way; horn home to serious.
This movement is made even harder through
its public image, lower number of users
What the readers say...
The following is a selection of comments from the
Reader Survey that we asked you to fill in from the
first of the revamped issues of Amiga Shopper -
March 199S.
All of your comments have been noted and we
are also looking at your suggestions to improve
the magazine.
Overall comments...
• "Very happy with format."
• "More help on upgrading Amiga A600 + 2Mb.
And how to use printers and which are best to
use on my computer."
• "It is packed with interest and no gloss or puff."
• "Can we have more specific information on
setting up Amiga software, i.e. Internet AmiTCP
Comms program."
• "Good balance of topics,"
• "Do not underestimate the Q&A page. Although
all info on your mag is valuable, Q&A is info
that we want - not what someone else thinks
we need. I do not agree with the new format,
but AS is still best."
• "The Supertest is very comprehensive."
As for the Coverdisks...
• DICE: "Good deal. OK if you like programming."
• DICE: "Really useful program with a lot to offer."
• DICE; "Quite good, but the editor was not very
good, a better user Interface would be nice."
• DICE: "Excellent. The first time a Coverdisk
language has worked for me."
• "An excellent combination. I'm not normally
drawn to free disks, but yours I can appreciate."
• "The database was much appreciated."
If you remember, we promised to give away 10
copies of Digita's new Organiser to 10 readers
who filled in the survey. The fortunate winners are:
Mike Davenport from Taunton in Somerset,
P.A. Seel from Bolton, Lancashire, Mr. S Sloggett
from Par in Cornwall, James Marsh of Frinton-on-
sea in Essex, Ian Collins from Dawlish in Devon,
Phil Bo stock from Ben Meet in Essex, Jill Dick from
Chapel-en-le-Frlth In Derbyshire, Michael A.
May bury of Brom borough, Merseyside, M. A. Cole
from Bristol, Avon and Mr. G. Blakeman from
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
102 Amiga shopper
June 1995
and inadequate (compared to whal it could
do) software.
Thus, irrespective of the technical
machines put forward by Amiga Shopper,
without a change in its common image its
niche (home) market will be gradually eroded.
The situation at the moment appears to be
that serious users arc ignored. With many
users owning 6Mb of RAM, hard drives, second
floppies and FPUs, why do software companies
not write software to take advantage of this?
Software is often geared towards low-end users
with 1Mb or 2Mb of RAM and a single floppy.
Both users must not be ignored.
Software should be written to take
advantage of both user groups. Why can't
document processors, for example, use FPUs
for all the mathematical calculations?
The future must be centred on a fast
processor machine. Research and development
on a RISC machine, which includes the new
graphics architecture, is imperative. It should
be coupled with HD floppy drives and CD
option in a big box. Basic specification should
be dictated by a company who are aware of the
basic needs so we do not get A 1200s with hard
drives, like old Commodore.
This should give the Amiga incredible
processor-speed and specialist graphics. A
complete change of image will allow the new
(and hopefully, by that time, existing)
advertising campaign to be amended to re-
launch the Amiga.
The games machine from Hell.
Simon Griffiths,
South Benfleet, Essex
The future of the Amiga depends mainly on who
succeeds in buying Amiga International and
what their plans are for our machine.
However, there are still many serious
products being released for the Amiga - just look
at all the review and Supertest pages of Amiga
Shopper and Amiga Format. (And at the pages of
advertising scattered throughout both mags.)
Amiga Shopper is committed to covering the
serious side of the Amiga, as long as there are
people out there who want to buy the magazine.
AS on FutureNet
Congratulations on your Web page. I'm very
impressed. 1 notice that you have put the chess
tutorial on the page for people to read. Would
it be possible for you to put the other AMOS
tutorials/programs that you have had in your
magazine on the page as well? I found them of
extreme use when I was learning AMOS and
think that they would help a lot of new users.
Darryl,
Australia
Eveiy month we are putting more and more
stuff on to the Amiga Shopper pages on
FutureNet and I will look into putting the
AMOS tutorials on the Net. in fact, last month
there were 1,000,000 accesses to the whole of
FutureNet and those accesses are increasing by
20 per cent every week.
The Amiga pages are proving to be the most
popular reads - especially Amiga Format 's news-
update page about the Commodore situation!
Issue 50
Sue Grant
Letters
Shop per Views
The Amiga at work
We want to feature a series
of articles about people
actually using an Amiga for
their work. Anyone who
produces music, graphics, etc. on the
Amiga for commercial use, please write
in to Talking Shop.
You could find yourself in the next issue
of Amiga Shopper!
And remember that the star letter of the
month gets £25.
More AMOS please!
Firstly let me congratulate you on your new
format. It makes the magazine (and the Amiga)
look more sophisticated and lends weight to
the argument of the Amiga being a
professional platform.
I have written to ask for you to return the
AMOS column. I am in my first year, studying
computer sciences at A level and part of the
syllabus requires me to write a program in a
language of my choosing. Rather than write on
the school's Acorn Archimedes (which are the
worst machines that I've ever had the
misfortune to come across!), I decided to use
AMOS on my trusty Al 200. 1 decided on
getting AMOS Pro, instead of Blitz Basic 2,
because AMOS Pro was meant to be easier to
use and because of your AMOS column.
Finally, I own a Panasonic camcorder and
am going to buy a genlock for my machine. I
am wanting to pay about £100 for a genlock. I
am considering buying the Lola Minigen, but I
have read about the new Fusion genlock.
Before making my final choice, I am waiting
for your magazine to review the Fusion!
Richard Roberts,
Liverpool, Mersey side
There are so many different tutorials that we
would like to include in Amiga Shopper,
covering subjects such as music, desktop
publishing and 3D graphics, as well as the ones
we already have on programming, Photogenics
and Comms, etc. I have had several letters
asking for the return of the AMOS tutorials and
will look at doing something when the C and
Assembler tutorials are finished.
Perhaps, as I said in the last letter's answer,
those readers who have access to Future
Publishing's World Wide Web site, FutureNet,
may find the AMOS tutorials we have already
run in Amiga Shopper appearing there soon.
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A case in point
Much as T hate to say it, I was rather
impressed by an old Amstrad PC the other day.
Not the actual machine, but the case it was in.
For a PC, it was tiny, about the same size as a
CD' 2 but very nicely finished with flaps and
lights in all the right places. When I asked the
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owner about it he said "nice looks, but
completely unexpandable". Enter the Amiga.
Since new Amigas seern to be the in subject,
how about this: a standard base machine in a
very small, stylish case, like the Amstrad one,
with a separate keyboard, an A1200-style
expansion edge and a couple of SIMM sockets.
Enough to keep most people happy.
For people with larger tastes, separate
expansion boxes, designed to clip on to the
base-unit using a special expansion slot on top
of the box and with a pass-through slot on top
of the expansion so lots can be connected. One
with, say, two video slots, one processor slot
and one Zorro III, others with two or four
Zorro III slots, and the whole thing capable of
being stacked vertically or horizontally. With
lots of lights as well. This way, there would be
far more standardisation of parts making things
simpler for Commodore (or whoever). And
people who need silly amounts of expansion
slots can have them. Problem solved.
Other manufacturers could get in on the
act too; perhaps an Emplant box with one
Zorro containing the Emplant card and three
PC or Mac-compatible slots, only visible to the
Emplant card. Or how about an online Raptor?
This would probably fit in with
Commodore's plans for the RISC machines, if
they follow the route described in March's
Amiga Format, i.e. having a base custom
processor containing CPU and graphics
engines, with multiple processors supported.
Each additional processor would have its
own expansion box. If they manage to get
someone really clever to design them, it
might even be possible to mix a RISC
expansion box complete with processor and
an existing 680x0-bascd set-up to give
complete fallback compatibility.
Jamie Keir,
Fairlie, Ayrshire
/ agree that the case design of the Amiga could
be improved upon, especially with the arrival of
all the new sexily-designed console machines.
The idea of having a separate keyboard is
not a new one - after all the A1000 had one. But
this does add significantly to the cost. Many
people prefer the all-in-one approach as it makes
the machine far more portable. 1 don't think that
Commodore will give up the idea of separates for
more powerful machines.
I like the idea of add-on boxes for anything
you want to connect. However, this would
increase the price of peripherals, as well as being
technically difficult. One central idea in
computer design is to minimise cross-talk along
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the data bus. This means keeping the lines short
and away from interference. Connectors can be a
problem. For example, the A570 CD drive was
unreliable if you had a hard drive connected to
the expansion port. It isn't impossible to
overcome, but it makes things more difficult -
which inevitably means more expensive.
Design of the times
I thought I'd write to air my views on what I'd
hope to see in the next generation of Amigas.
1) Case design of the A1200 and its
successors. Couldn't Commodore (or whoever
comes out victorious in the end) get rid of the
nasty wedge that keeps the A 1200 looking so
cheap and tacky? A separate keyboard and
mini-tower or box just looks so much more
classy and as if it contains a really powerful
machine, first impressions last and the A1200
simply doesn't look the part. Let's leave the
CD^ 2 to the games players and bring the Al 200
into the semi-pro market in style.
2) Floppy drives. Can someone please have
the good sense to install quiet, non-clicking
dfO:s? Please. Mine sounds like a grinding rock.
3) Parallel ports. How much would it really
cost to stick another parallel port on the back
of the Amiga, to save us the bother of having to
keep swapping our sampler, printer, scanner...?
4) A faster CPU for the lower models.
David Pleasance said it would cost very little to
install a 6S030 instead of the old 020, so why
not charge a little more for the improved
performance of an 030 and save the user the
trouble of having to buy an extra board?
5) SCSI and SCSI2. If the Squirrel can be
sold for £69 including CD 32 emulation, why
not bring it in as standard instead of the IDE
interface we're lumbered with al present?
6) A native Amiga networking system.
The Mac's got Appletalk built in, the 1 PC is
rubbish, as usual, but we've got very little by
way of getting connected without buying lots
of extra hardware. Ethernet is available, but
why not design a standard system like
Appletalk which requires no extra hardware?
7) A much faster CPU for the top-ot-lhe-
range machines... although RISC should
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sort us out on this one for the moment. Good.
8) Built-in MIDI, not too expensive is it?
It's just such a bind to tie up your serial port -
your gateway to the Internet - with a blinkin'
MIDI interface. Hell, even the Atari ST had one!
9) Built-in texture mapping and 3D
rendering on a custom chip (no, not the CPU -
that should be busy organising other things),
something like an FPU for 3D-graphics only.
10) Workbench flexibility... yes, even more.
How about paying the author of MUI to allow
a MUI Workbench which is totally
customisable? And animated icons! Oh, and a
palette editor for the full 256 colours,
Kier Darby,
Reading, Berks
1) Well, as we said before, this would make the
unit mom expensive - not what CBM need at the
moment. There was more a case for this when
Commodore also manufactured PCs (because
they would have an economy of scale on the
supply of cases), but with an entry level
machine, price is very important.
2) That is more to do with the OS than the
hardware, but I too am a bit baffled.
3) The Amiga already has quite a few ports
at the back. It is annoying, but you can get a
switcher. There is no reason why big-box Amigas
couldn't have an extra parallel port though - but
then you can buy them on a Zorro card anyway.
4) I'm sure this will come to pass, but then
everyone will want 060s.
5) Or even PCi, the standard that is catching
on with the PC and Mac. IDE was cheaper and
easier, but PCi wouldn't be much harder.
6) They already have the software - Envoy. It
just needs a simple hardware addition.
7) Well, as you say, I'm sure this is top of
the agenda.
8) Hmm. There is probably more of a case
for having two serial ports.
9) Well, the Amiga is reasonably well
served with custom graphics chips, but it
could perhaps add some features to speed up
these operations.
10) Workbench is being constantly
upgraded. 3. 1 was quite excellent, 4.0 will be
even better.
I'm surprised you didn't mention a hard
drive. Even a small, slow one would be a great
boon - perhaps as an option. Juggling five
Workbench disks is nobody's idea of fun, and if
Workbench is to get more powerful, you really
need a hard drive to run it off. Also, high density
drives would be very useful, and the facility to
easily add s-vhs output to the Amiga.
Thanks for your comments, Kier. Has
anyone else got any ideas for the new owners of
the Amiga to think about? I
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Computer Solutions
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GMC Computers
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21 Gaol Lane, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 6JL
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H(-Tek
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Silica
52 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1P OBA
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INTERNAL £85.00
A4000 INT. £85.00
POWER DRIVE
The Power Drive now includes Blitz
Amiga and Floppy Expander, free.
Floppy Expander allows you to
compress files on floppy disks by up
to 50%. Other features include: Anti-
Click, Anti- Virus, Isolation Switch, 2
Year Warranty, Thru'port, Cyclone
Compatible Chip, Backup Hardware
and Blitz Compatible feature.
EXTERNAL £49.95
CYCLONE S/W ONLY . .£ I 0.00
INTERNAL DRIVES
Our internal drives use the same drive
mechanisms as the Amiga to ensure
complete compatibility.
PC88I A500 £30.95
PC882 A2000 £30.95
PC883 A6007I200 £35.95
Compete with Crystal, Blizzard Board compatible
All products have a 12 month warranty unless otherwise specified
Trade and Educational orders welcome - Worldwide distribution available
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